From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: remove block_device_ejected
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 06:27:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1423920462-20646-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> (raw)
bdi->dev now never goes away, so this function became useless.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 18 +-----------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index ad88e60..826cb66 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -323,22 +323,6 @@ static void save_error_info(struct super_block *sb, const char *func,
ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
}
-/*
- * The del_gendisk() function uninitializes the disk-specific data
- * structures, including the bdi structure, without telling anyone
- * else. Once this happens, any attempt to call mark_buffer_dirty()
- * (for example, by ext4_commit_super), will cause a kernel OOPS.
- * This is a kludge to prevent these oops until we can put in a proper
- * hook in del_gendisk() to inform the VFS and file system layers.
- */
-static int block_device_ejected(struct super_block *sb)
-{
- struct inode *bd_inode = sb->s_bdev->bd_inode;
- struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(bd_inode);
-
- return bdi->dev == NULL;
-}
next reply other threads:[~2015-02-14 13:29 UTC|newest]
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2015-02-14 13:27 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-04-03 3:57 ` [PATCH] ext4: remove block_device_ejected Theodore Ts'o
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