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authorMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>2009-04-14 21:48:40 +0400
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-04-15 14:10:12 +0400
commitf8cc774ce4844811a55e2352f1443055e3994e28 (patch)
treea9d95b3d23044ff6217b76135d0be1661ffbc5e7 /fs/splice.c
parent328eaaba4e41a04c1dc4679d65bea3fee4349d86 (diff)
downloadlinux-f8cc774ce4844811a55e2352f1443055e3994e28.tar.xz
splice: remove generic_file_splice_write_nolock()
Remove the now unused generic_file_splice_write_nolock() function. It's conceptually broken anyway, because splice may need to wait for pipe events so holding locks across the whole operation is wrong. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 584b2b7a1dbe..128ee36a719b 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -811,65 +811,6 @@ ssize_t splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
}
/**
- * generic_file_splice_write_nolock - generic_file_splice_write without mutexes
- * @pipe: pipe info
- * @out: file to write to
- * @ppos: position in @out
- * @len: number of bytes to splice
- * @flags: splice modifier flags
- *
- * Description:
- * Will either move or copy pages (determined by @flags options) from
- * the given pipe inode to the given file. The caller is responsible
- * for acquiring i_mutex on both inodes.
- *
- */
-ssize_t
-generic_file_splice_write_nolock(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
- loff_t *ppos, size_t len, unsigned int flags)
-{
- struct address_space *mapping = out->f_mapping;
- struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
- struct splice_desc sd = {
- .total_len = len,
- .flags = flags,
- .pos = *ppos,
- .u.file = out,
- };
- ssize_t ret;
- int err;
-
- err = file_remove_suid(out);
- if (unlikely(err))
- return err;
-
- ret = __splice_from_pipe(pipe, &sd, pipe_to_file);
- if (ret > 0) {
- unsigned long nr_pages;
-
- *ppos += ret;
- nr_pages = (ret + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
-
- /*
- * If file or inode is SYNC and we actually wrote some data,
- * sync it.
- */
- if (unlikely((out->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
- err = generic_osync_inode(inode, mapping,
- OSYNC_METADATA|OSYNC_DATA);
-
- if (err)
- ret = err;
- }
- balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(mapping, nr_pages);
- }
-
- return ret;
-}
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_splice_write_nolock);
-
-/**
* generic_file_splice_write - splice data from a pipe to a file
* @pipe: pipe info
* @out: file to write to