[PATCH] free_uid() locking improvement

Reduce lock hold times in free_uid().

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

kernel/user.c

@@ -105,15 +105,19 @@ void free_uid(struct user_struct *up)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	if (!up)
+		return;
+
 	local_irq_save(flags);
-	if (up && atomic_dec_and_lock(&up->__count, &uidhash_lock)) {
+	if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&up->__count, &uidhash_lock)) {
 		uid_hash_remove(up);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags);
 		key_put(up->uid_keyring);
 		key_put(up->session_keyring);
 		kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, up);
-		spin_unlock(&uidhash_lock);
-	}
+	} else {
 		local_irq_restore(flags);
+	}
 }
 
 struct user_struct * alloc_uid(uid_t uid)