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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2009-06-11 11:09:47 -0400 |
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| committer | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2009-06-11 14:57:54 -0400 |
| commit | ce61856bd2aadb064f595e5c0444376a2b117c41 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a438d07fbce1acbb3970b631211aaf445f2e41b /fs | |
| parent | 5ac697b793a3c45005c568df692518da6e690390 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-ce61856bd2aadb064f595e5c0444376a2b117c41.tar.gz lwn-ce61856bd2aadb064f595e5c0444376a2b117c41.zip | |
dnotify: do not bother to lock entry->lock when reading mask
entry->lock is needed to make sure entry->mask does not change while
manipulating it. In dnotify_should_send_event() we don't care if we get an
old or a new mask value out of this entry so there is no point it taking
the lock.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c b/fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c index 5134e898f60d..ec459b6e8c64 100644 --- a/fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c +++ b/fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c @@ -153,9 +153,8 @@ static bool dnotify_should_send_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, if (!entry) return false; - spin_lock(&entry->lock); send = (mask & entry->mask); - spin_unlock(&entry->lock); + fsnotify_put_mark(entry); /* matches fsnotify_find_mark_entry */ return send; |