[merged mm-stable] mm-remove-wb_writeout_inc.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] mm-remove-wb_writeout_inc.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: remove wb_writeout_inc
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-remove-wb_writeout_inc.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: mm: remove wb_writeout_inc
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:10:52 +0200

Remove this entirely unused but exported function.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260710051052.1839523-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Acked-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/backing-dev.h |    2 --
 mm/page-writeback.c         |   10 ----------
 2 files changed, 12 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h~mm-remove-wb_writeout_inc
+++ a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -76,8 +76,6 @@ static inline s64 wb_stat_sum(struct bdi
 	return percpu_counter_sum_positive(&wb->stat[item]);
 }
 
-extern void wb_writeout_inc(struct bdi_writeback *wb);
-
 /*
  * maximal error of a stat counter.
  */
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c~mm-remove-wb_writeout_inc
+++ a/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -584,16 +584,6 @@ static inline void __wb_writeout_add(str
 				       wb->bdi->max_prop_frac, nr);
 }
 
-void wb_writeout_inc(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
-{
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	local_irq_save(flags);
-	__wb_writeout_add(wb, 1);
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wb_writeout_inc);
-
 /*
  * On idle system, we can be called long after we scheduled because we use
  * deferred timers so count with missed periods.
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@lst.de are

shmem-provide-a-shmem_write_folio-wrapper.patch
mm-swap-introduce-struct-swap_io_ctx.patch
mm-swap-also-use-struct-swap_iocb-for-block-i-o.patch
mm-swap-remove-count_swpout_vm_event.patch
mm-swap-use-swap_ops-to-register-swap-devices-methods.patch
mm-swap-remove-swp_fs_ops.patch
mm-vmstat-add-nrswpinout-counters.patch