There is nothing gained by holding a lock while we check if a pointer
is NULL or not. If there could be a race, then it could become NULL
immediately after the unlock - but there is no race here.
So just remove the locking.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/bitmap.c | 14 ++------------
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/bitmap.c b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
index fcf3c94..e12b515 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
@@ -446,18 +446,13 @@ out:
void bitmap_update_sb(struct bitmap *bitmap)
{
bitmap_super_t *sb;
- unsigned long flags;
if (!bitmap || !bitmap->mddev) /* no bitmap for this array */
return;
if (bitmap->mddev->bitmap_info.external)
return;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&bitmap->lock, flags);
- if (!bitmap->sb_page) { /* no superblock */
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bitmap->lock, flags);
+ if (!bitmap->sb_page) /* no superblock */
return;
- }
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bitmap->lock, flags);
sb = kmap_atomic(bitmap->sb_page, KM_USER0);
sb->events = cpu_to_le64(bitmap->mddev->events);
if (bitmap->mddev->events < bitmap->events_cleared)
@@ -683,15 +678,10 @@ static int bitmap_mask_state(struct bitmap *bitmap, enum bitmap_state bits,
enum bitmap_mask_op op)
{
bitmap_super_t *sb;
- unsigned long flags;
int old;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&bitmap->lock, flags);
- if (!bitmap->sb_page) { /* can't set the state */
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bitmap->lock, flags);
+ if (!bitmap->sb_page) /* can't set the state */
return 0;
- }
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bitmap->lock, flags);
sb = kmap_atomic(bitmap->sb_page, KM_USER0);
old = le32_to_cpu(sb->state) & bits;
switch (op) {
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