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authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>2015-05-20 14:41:18 +0800
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2015-05-21 17:26:22 -0400
commit899a94fe15a8e928277ff0d0402c086fa67fe16f (patch)
treeef82ff159b3fffde2c76f6502f0ce82f5896b954 /kernel/workqueue.c
parentda7f91b2e2c6176f95ca7b538d74dc70c5d11ded (diff)
downloadlinux-899a94fe15a8e928277ff0d0402c086fa67fe16f.tar.gz
workqueue: remove the lock from wq_sysfs_prep_attrs()
Reading to wq->unbound_attrs requires protection of either wq_pool_mutex
or wq->mutex, and wq_sysfs_prep_attrs() is called with wq_pool_mutex held,
so we don't need to grab wq->mutex here.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/workqueue.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index bd4b24d3489d..ad8dc2b9efc3 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4937,13 +4937,13 @@ static struct workqueue_attrs *wq_sysfs_prep_attrs(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 {
 	struct workqueue_attrs *attrs;
 
+	lockdep_assert_held(&wq_pool_mutex);
+
 	attrs = alloc_workqueue_attrs(GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!attrs)
 		return NULL;
 
-	mutex_lock(&wq->mutex);
 	copy_workqueue_attrs(attrs, wq->unbound_attrs);
-	mutex_unlock(&wq->mutex);
 	return attrs;
 }