Page accesses are serialised using the page locks, whereas all attribute
updates are serialised using the inode->i_lock.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
---
fs/nfs/dir.c | 3 ---
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index 2be85da..9c75ec4 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -534,8 +534,6 @@ static int nfs_readdir(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir)
(long long)filp->f_pos);
nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_VFSGETDENTS);
- lock_kernel();
-
/*
* filp->f_pos points to the dirent entry number.
* *desc->dir_cookie has the cookie for the next entry. We have
@@ -593,7 +591,6 @@ static int nfs_readdir(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir)
}
out:
nfs_unblock_sillyrename(dentry);
- unlock_kernel();
if (res > 0)
res = 0;
dfprintk(FILE, "NFS: readdir(%s/%s) returns %ld\n",