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        /* Do not publish this dentry inside the global dentry hash table */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;
-
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