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| author | Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com> | 2006-01-08 01:04:37 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-08 20:14:04 -0800 |
| commit | eb46996f90a0826921f1a0d81535537a9c7f91b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 9c9abe4c1e3ea2bf07b97d3ec6603eec94da69fa /kernel | |
| parent | 349aef0bc4c7f07d685c977e12d0e2d0b5d0e6db (diff) | |
| download | linux-eb46996f90a0826921f1a0d81535537a9c7f91b0.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] kernel/module.c: remove redundant spinlock in resolve_symbol()
Remove the redundant spinlock in the function resolve_symbol() as we are
not altering the module list, and we already hold the semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index f368812ac0e8..e4276046a1b6 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -958,7 +958,6 @@ static unsigned long resolve_symbol(Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, unsigned long ret; const unsigned long *crc; - spin_lock_irq(&modlist_lock); ret = __find_symbol(name, &owner, &crc, mod->license_gplok); if (ret) { /* use_module can fail due to OOM, or module unloading */ @@ -966,7 +965,6 @@ static unsigned long resolve_symbol(Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, !use_module(mod, owner)) ret = 0; } - spin_unlock_irq(&modlist_lock); return ret; } |