walk_init_root is a tiny helper that is marked __always_inline, has just one caller and an unused argument. Just merge it into the caller. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/namei.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/namei.c 2008-11-04 12:24:53.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6/fs/namei.c 2008-11-04 12:26:04.000000000 +0100 @@ -521,18 +521,6 @@ out_unlock: return result; } -/* SMP-safe */ -static __always_inline void -walk_init_root(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd) -{ - struct fs_struct *fs = current->fs; - - read_lock(&fs->lock); - nd->path = fs->root; - path_get(&fs->root); - read_unlock(&fs->lock); -} - /* * Wrapper to retry pathname resolution whenever the underlying * file system returns an ESTALE. @@ -570,9 +558,16 @@ static __always_inline int __vfs_follow_ goto fail; if (*link == '/') { + struct fs_struct *fs = current->fs; + path_put(&nd->path); - walk_init_root(link, nd); + + read_lock(&fs->lock); + nd->path = fs->root; + path_get(&fs->root); + read_unlock(&fs->lock); } + res = link_path_walk(link, nd); if (nd->depth || res || nd->last_type!=LAST_NORM) return res; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html