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don't take lock on changing ra_pages

PATCH Applied Wu Fengguang 2 participants 2 messages Nov 23, 2008 – Nov 25, 2008 Block layer

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PATCH 1/1 don't take lock on changing ra_pages

There's no need to take queue_lock or kernel_lock when modifying bdi->ra_pages. So remove them. Also remove out of date comment for queue_max_sectors_store().

---
 block/blk-sysfs.c    |    7 +------
 block/compat_ioctl.c |    2 --
 block/ioctl.c        |    2 --
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
block/blk-sysfs.c +1 -6
@@ -88,9 +88,7 @@ queue_ra_store(struct request_queue *q, 
 	unsigned long ra_kb;
 	ssize_t ret = queue_var_store(&ra_kb, page, count);
 
-	spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
 	q->backing_dev_info.ra_pages = ra_kb >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - 10);
-	spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -117,10 +115,7 @@ queue_max_sectors_store(struct request_q
 
 	if (max_sectors_kb > max_hw_sectors_kb || max_sectors_kb < page_kb)
 		return -EINVAL;
-	/*
-	 * Take the queue lock to update the readahead and max_sectors
-	 * values synchronously:
-	 */
+
 	spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
 	q->max_sectors = max_sectors_kb << 1;
 	spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
block/compat_ioctl.c +0 -2
@@ -745,9 +745,7 @@ long compat_blkdev_ioctl(struct file *fi
 		bdi = blk_get_backing_dev_info(bdev);
 		if (bdi == NULL)
 			return -ENOTTY;
-		lock_kernel();
 		bdi->ra_pages = (arg * 512) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
-		unlock_kernel();
 		return 0;
 	case BLKGETSIZE:
 		size = bdev->bd_inode->i_size;
block/ioctl.c +0 -2
@@ -323,9 +323,7 @@ int blkdev_ioctl(struct block_device *bd
 		bdi = blk_get_backing_dev_info(bdev);
 		if (bdi == NULL)
 			return -ENOTTY;
-		lock_kernel();
 		bdi->ra_pages = (arg * 512) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
-		unlock_kernel();
 		return 0;
 	case BLKBSZSET:
 		/* set the logical block size */
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Quoted 3 lines · Wu Fengguang

There's no need to take queue_lock or kernel_lock when modifying bdi->ra_pages. So remove them. Also remove out of date comment for queue_max_sectors_store().

Thanks, applied to for-2.6.29.

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Jens Axboe