Commit eb5f8545 authored Oct 17, 2006 by Frank Filz Committed by Trond Myklebust Dec 06, 2006

NFS: Remove use of the Big Kernel Lock around nfs calls to readlink



Remove use of the Big Kernel Lock around indirect calls to
nfs3_proc_readlink and nfs4_proc_readlink, both of which
basically call rpc_call_sync.

Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

parent cae823c4

fs/nfs/symlink.c

+0 −2

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		@@ -33,9 +33,7 @@ static int nfs_symlink_filler(struct inode inode, struct page page)
		{
		int error;

		lock_kernel();
		error = NFS_PROTO(inode)->readlink(inode, page, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
		unlock_kernel();
		if (error < 0)
		goto error;
		SetPageUptodate(page);