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splice: remove i_mutex locking in splice_from_pipe()
authorMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:48:37 +0000 (19:48 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:10:11 +0000 (12:10 +0200)
commit2933970b960223076d6affcf7a77e2bc546b8102
tree1658b9692948b5118fc5fea29b83be4329c56b6etree | snapshot
parentb3c2d2ddd63944ef2a1e4a43077b602288107e01commit | diff
splice: remove i_mutex locking in splice_from_pipe()

splice_from_pipe() is only called from two places:

  - generic_splice_sendpage()
  - splice_write_null()

Neither of these require i_mutex to be taken on the destination inode.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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