fs: dcache remove dcache_lock

dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 090f0eacde2..296cf2fde94 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ struct super_block {
 #else
         struct list_head        s_files;
 #endif
-        /* s_dentry_lru and s_nr_dentry_unused are protected by dcache_lock */
+        /* s_dentry_lru, s_nr_dentry_unused protected by dcache.c lru locks */
         struct list_head        s_dentry_lru;   /* unused dentry lru */
         int                     s_nr_dentry_unused;     /* # of dentry on lru */
 
@@ -2446,6 +2446,10 @@ static inline ino_t parent_ino(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
         ino_t res;
 
+        /*
+         * Don't strictly need d_lock here? If the parent ino could change
+         * then surely we'd have a deeper race in the caller?
+         */
         spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
         res = dentry->d_parent->d_inode->i_ino;
         spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);