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Commit c3cc8c01 authored by Trond Myklebust's avatar Trond Myklebust
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NFS: Remove BKL from the readdir code 



Page accesses are serialised using the page locks, whereas all attribute
updates are serialised using the inode->i_lock.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
parent 76566991

fs/nfs/dir.c

+0 −3
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -534,8 +534,6 @@ static int nfs_readdir(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir) 
			(long long)filp->f_pos);

	nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_VFSGETDENTS);



	lock_kernel();



	/*

	 * filp->f_pos points to the dirent entry number.

	 * *desc->dir_cookie has the cookie for the next entry. We have
@@ -593,7 +591,6 @@ static int nfs_readdir(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir) 
	}

out:

	nfs_unblock_sillyrename(dentry);

	unlock_kernel();

	if (res > 0)

		res = 0;

	dfprintk(FILE, "NFS: readdir(%s/%s) returns %ld\n",