[PATCH resend] fs/proc: Move kfree outside pde_unload_lock

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This moves a kfree outside a spinlock to help scaling on larger (512 core)
systems.  This should be some relief until we can move the section to use
the rcu.

I ran a simple test which just reads from /proc/cpuinfo.
Lower is better, as you can see the worst case scenario is improved.

	baseline	moved kfree
tasks	read-sec	read-sec
1	0.0141		0.0141
2	0.0140		0.0140
4	0.0140		0.0141
8	0.0145		0.0145
16	0.0553		0.0548
32	0.1688		0.1622
64	0.5017		0.3856
128	1.7005		0.9710
256	5.2513		2.6519
512	8.0529		6.2976

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/proc/inode.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
index 439ae688..863608b 100644
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c
+++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -403,11 +403,10 @@ static int proc_reg_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	}
 	pde->pde_users++;
 	release = pde->proc_fops->release;
-	if (pdeo) {
+	if (pdeo)
 		list_del(&pdeo->lh);
-		kfree(pdeo);
-	}
 	spin_unlock(&pde->pde_unload_lock);
+	kfree(pdeo);
 
 	if (release)
 		rv = release(inode, file);
-- 
1.8.1.2

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