From: Frank Filz Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:24:42 -0700 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 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust ---- ### Diffstat output symlink.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 2 deletions(-) --- fs/nfs/symlink.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/symlink.c b/fs/nfs/symlink.c index 600bbe6..6c68611 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/symlink.c +++ b/fs/nfs/symlink.c @@ -33,9 +33,7 @@ static int nfs_symlink_filler(struct ino { int error; - lock_kernel(); error = NFS_PROTO(inode)->readlink(inode, page, 0, PAGE_SIZE); - unlock_kernel(); if (error < 0) goto error; SetPageUptodate(page);