Since we know the shared inode count is always >0, we can avoid igrab() and use an open coded atomic_inc().
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Davide --- fs/anon_inodes.c | 25 ++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.mod/fs/anon_inodes.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.mod.orig/fs/anon_inodes.c 2007-09-27 11:26:57.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.mod/fs/anon_inodes.c 2007-09-27 11:51:42.000000000 -0700 @@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ { struct qstr this; struct dentry *dentry; - struct inode *inode; struct file *file; int error, fd; @@ -86,15 +85,9 @@ if (!file) return -ENFILE; - inode = igrab(anon_inode_inode); - if (IS_ERR(inode)) { - error = PTR_ERR(inode); - goto err_put_filp; - } - error = get_unused_fd(); if (error < 0) - goto err_iput; + goto err_put_filp; fd = error; /* @@ -108,14 +101,22 @@ dentry = d_alloc(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &this); if (!dentry) goto err_put_unused_fd; + + /* + * We know the anon_inode inode count is always greater than zero, + * so we can avoid doing an igrab() and we can use an open-coded + * atomic_inc(). + */ + atomic_inc(&anon_inode_inode->i_count); + dentry->d_op = &anon_inodefs_dentry_operations; /* Do not publish this dentry inside the global dentry hash table */ dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_UNHASHED; - d_instantiate(dentry, inode); + d_instantiate(dentry, anon_inode_inode); file->f_path.mnt = mntget(anon_inode_mnt); file->f_path.dentry = dentry; - file->f_mapping = inode->i_mapping; + file->f_mapping = anon_inode_inode->i_mapping; file->f_pos = 0; file->f_flags = O_RDWR; @@ -127,14 +128,12 @@ fd_install(fd, file); *pfd = fd; - *pinode = inode; + *pinode = anon_inode_inode; *pfile = file; return 0; err_put_unused_fd: put_unused_fd(fd); -err_iput: - iput(inode); err_put_filp: put_filp(file); return error; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/