Page accesses are serialised using the page locks, whereas all attribute updates are serialised using the inode->i_lock. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index 2be85da..9c75ec4 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -534,8 +534,6 @@ static int nfs_readdir(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir) (long long)filp->f_pos); nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_VFSGETDENTS); - lock_kernel(); - /* * filp->f_pos points to the dirent entry number. * *desc->dir_cookie has the cookie for the next entry. We have @@ -593,7 +591,6 @@ static int nfs_readdir(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir) } out: nfs_unblock_sillyrename(dentry); - unlock_kernel(); if (res > 0) res = 0; dfprintk(FILE, "NFS: readdir(%s/%s) returns %ld\n", -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html