After allocating a inode,it don't chain in superblock.At this time,it won't be used by others.So it make no sense to protect there. Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/inode.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index f5f7c06..1d7b0dd 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -906,9 +906,7 @@ struct inode *new_inode_pseudo(struct super_block *sb) struct inode *inode = alloc_inode(sb); if (inode) { - spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); inode->i_state = 0; - spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_sb_list); } return inode; -- 1.8.2.rc2.4.g7799588 -- 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