kill unneeded code from mm/memory.c
PATCH 1/1 kill unneeded code from mm/memory.c
Hi Alan,
the attached patch kills a one of the two identical conditionals at the end of vmtruncate. This piece of code is only in -ac, btw.
Please consider applying.
Christoph
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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
diff -uNr ../master/linux-2.4.7-ac3/mm/memory.c linux/mm/memory.c
--- ../master/linux-2.4.7-ac3/mm/memory.c Thu Aug 2 01:48:23 2001
+++ linux/mm/memory.c Thu Aug 2 01:50:12 2001
@@ -1041,17 +1041,10 @@
}
}
inode->i_size = offset;
- if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->truncate)
- {
- /* This doesnt scale but it is meant to be a 2.4 invariant */
- lock_kernel();
- inode->i_op->truncate(inode);
- unlock_kernel();
- }
- return 0;
-
+
out_truncate:
if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->truncate) {
+ /* This doesnt scale but it is meant to be a 2.4 invariant */
lock_kernel();
inode->i_op->truncate(inode);
unlock_kernel();