Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:22:27 +0300 | From | Oleg Drokin on behalf of Hans Reiser <> | Subject | [PATCH] 2.5 dropping unneded lock precense check. |
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Hello!
After BKL was moved from the VFS into the filesystem's methods in the lookup call, we do not need to check BKL is actually held (we know it is not). This patch patch removes unneeded lock_depth check. Without this patch reiserfs cannot be used on SMP. Please apply.
--- linux-2.5.5/fs/reiserfs/namei.c.orig Thu Feb 14 11:53:09 2002 +++ linux-2.5.5/fs/reiserfs/namei.c Thu Feb 14 11:53:17 2002 @@ -344,8 +344,6 @@ struct reiserfs_dir_entry de; INITIALIZE_PATH (path_to_entry); - reiserfs_check_lock_depth("lookup") ; - if (dentry->d_name.len > REISERFS_MAX_NAME_LEN (dir->i_sb->s_blocksize)) return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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