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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2011-01-12 17:00:35 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 08:03:17 -0800
commit3740a20c4fe8697cb604a7d51395d23472b1768f (patch)
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parenta6fc86d2b43bf1086557f023a24adf91db915559 (diff)
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proc: less LOCK/UNLOCK in remove_proc_entry()
For the common case where a proc entry is being removed and nobody is in the process of using it, save a LOCK/UNLOCK pair. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/generic.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/generic.c5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index d00c5af6f199..01e07f2a188f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -826,12 +826,9 @@ void remove_proc_entry(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent)
wait_for_completion(de->pde_unload_completion);
- goto continue_removing;
+ spin_lock(&de->pde_unload_lock);
}
- spin_unlock(&de->pde_unload_lock);
-continue_removing:
- spin_lock(&de->pde_unload_lock);
while (!list_empty(&de->pde_openers)) {
struct pde_opener *pdeo;