From 4237e0d3de38da640d7c977d68f5f7f1d207a631 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 04:18:27 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] proc: less LOCK operations during lookup Pseudo-code for lookup effectively is: LOCK kernel LOCK proc_subdir_lock find PDE UNLOCK proc_subdir_lock get inode LOCK proc_subdir_lock goto unlock UNLOCK proc_subdir_lock UNLOCK kernel We can get rid of LOCK/UNLOCK pair after getting inode simply by jumping to unlock_kernel() directly. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed