This patch removes spin_lock, since this is covered by f2fs_lock_op already.
And, we should avoid to use page operations inside spin_lock.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaeg...@kernel.org>
---
 fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
index 6dbff2b..d076e7e 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
@@ -514,7 +514,12 @@ static void write_orphan_inodes(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, 
block_t start_blk)
                grab_meta_page(sbi, start_blk + index);
 
        index = 1;
-       spin_lock(&im->ino_lock);
+
+       /*
+        * we don't need to do spin_lock(&im->ino_lock) here, since all the
+        * orphan inode operations are covered under f2fs_lock_op().
+        * And, spin_lock should be avoided due to page operations below.
+        */
        head = &im->ino_list;
 
        /* loop for each orphan inode entry and write them in Jornal block */
@@ -554,8 +559,6 @@ static void write_orphan_inodes(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, 
block_t start_blk)
                set_page_dirty(page);
                f2fs_put_page(page, 1);
        }
-
-       spin_unlock(&im->ino_lock);
 }
 
 static struct page *validate_checkpoint(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
-- 
2.1.1


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