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authorAshutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com>2006-01-08 01:04:37 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-08 20:14:04 -0800
commiteb46996f90a0826921f1a0d81535537a9c7f91b0 (patch)
tree9c9abe4c1e3ea2bf07b97d3ec6603eec94da69fa /kernel
parent349aef0bc4c7f07d685c977e12d0e2d0b5d0e6db (diff)
[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.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index f368812ac0e..e4276046a1b 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;
}