From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Remove the contentious inode lock, and instead provide thread safety using the file->f_lock spinlock. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index cb52db9a0cfb..e56b1bd99537 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -955,7 +955,6 @@ static int nfs_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx) static loff_t nfs_llseek_dir(struct file *filp, loff_t offset, int whence) { - struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp); struct nfs_open_dir_context *dir_ctx = filp->private_data; dfprintk(FILE, "NFS: llseek dir(%pD2, %lld, %d)\n", @@ -967,15 +966,15 @@ static loff_t nfs_llseek_dir(struct file *filp, loff_t offset, int whence) case SEEK_SET: if (offset < 0) return -EINVAL; - inode_lock(inode); + spin_lock(&filp->f_lock); break; case SEEK_CUR: if (offset == 0) return filp->f_pos; - inode_lock(inode); + spin_lock(&filp->f_lock); offset += filp->f_pos; if (offset < 0) { - inode_unlock(inode); + spin_unlock(&filp->f_lock); return -EINVAL; } } @@ -987,7 +986,7 @@ static loff_t nfs_llseek_dir(struct file *filp, loff_t offset, int whence) dir_ctx->dir_cookie = 0; dir_ctx->duped = 0; } - inode_unlock(inode); + spin_unlock(&filp->f_lock); return offset; } -- 2.28.0