NFS: Remove BKL from the readdir code

Page accesses are serialised using the page locks, whereas all attribute
updates are serialised using the inode->i_lock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index e5f950291928aea7ff143b0c3d6e89647fe035d4..28a238dab23a2a16919ef58706a431447bcc8f5b 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -534,8 +534,6 @@ static int nfs_readdir(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir)
                        (long long)filp->f_pos);
        nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_VFSGETDENTS);
 
-       lock_kernel();
-
        /*
         * filp->f_pos points to the dirent entry number.
         * *desc->dir_cookie has the cookie for the next entry. We have
@@ -593,7 +591,6 @@ static int nfs_readdir(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir)
        }
 out:
        nfs_unblock_sillyrename(dentry);
-       unlock_kernel();
        if (res > 0)
                res = 0;
        dfprintk(FILE, "NFS: readdir(%s/%s) returns %ld\n",