[PATCH] 2.5 dropping unneded lock precense check.

Oleg Drokin on behalf of Hans Reiser (reiser@namesys.com)
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:22:27 +0300


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);

-
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