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Message-ID: <20100607082039.GA29155@lst.de>
Date:	Mon, 7 Jun 2010 10:20:39 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext3: remove vestiges of nobh support

The nobh option was only supported for writeback mode, but given that all
write paths (except mmapped writed) actually create buffer heads, it
effectively was a no-op already.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext3/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext3/inode.c	2010-06-07 09:56:07.519275527 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext3/inode.c	2010-06-07 09:56:35.267022978 +0200
@@ -1625,10 +1625,7 @@ static int ext3_writeback_writepage(stru
 		goto out_fail;
 	}
 
-	if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) && ext3_should_writeback_data(inode))
-		ret = nobh_writepage(page, ext3_get_block, wbc);
-	else
-		ret = block_write_full_page(page, ext3_get_block, wbc);
+	ret = block_write_full_page(page, ext3_get_block, wbc);
 
 	err = ext3_journal_stop(handle);
 	if (!ret)
@@ -1922,17 +1919,6 @@ static int ext3_block_truncate_page(hand
 	length = blocksize - (offset & (blocksize - 1));
 	iblock = index << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits);
 
-	/*
-	 * For "nobh" option,  we can only work if we don't need to
-	 * read-in the page - otherwise we create buffers to do the IO.
-	 */
-	if (!page_has_buffers(page) && test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) &&
-	     ext3_should_writeback_data(inode) && PageUptodate(page)) {
-		zero_user(page, offset, length);
-		set_page_dirty(page);
-		goto unlock;
-	}
-
 	if (!page_has_buffers(page))
 		create_empty_buffers(page, blocksize, 0);
 
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext3/super.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext3/super.c	2010-06-07 09:56:07.529254714 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext3/super.c	2010-06-07 09:56:35.268023746 +0200
@@ -661,9 +661,6 @@ static int ext3_show_options(struct seq_
 	 */
 	seq_puts(seq, ",barrier=");
 	seq_puts(seq, test_opt(sb, BARRIER) ? "1" : "0");
-	if (test_opt(sb, NOBH))
-		seq_puts(seq, ",nobh");
-
 	seq_printf(seq, ",data=%s", data_mode_string(test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS)));
 	if (test_opt(sb, DATA_ERR_ABORT))
 		seq_puts(seq, ",data_err=abort");
@@ -1255,10 +1252,12 @@ set_qf_format:
 			*n_blocks_count = option;
 			break;
 		case Opt_nobh:
-			set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, NOBH);
+			ext3_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING,
+				"warning: ignoring deprecated nobh option");
 			break;
 		case Opt_bh:
-			clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, NOBH);
+			ext3_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING,
+				"warning: ignoring deprecated bh option");
 			break;
 		default:
 			ext3_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
@@ -2001,14 +2000,6 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super
 		break;
 	}
 
-	if (test_opt(sb, NOBH)) {
-		if (!(test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT3_MOUNT_WRITEBACK_DATA)) {
-			ext3_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING,
-				"warning: ignoring nobh option - "
-				"it is supported only with writeback mode");
-			clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, NOBH);
-		}
-	}
 	/*
 	 * The journal_load will have done any necessary log recovery,
 	 * so we can safely mount the rest of the filesystem now.
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/ext3_fs.h	2010-06-07 09:56:07.540254365 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/ext3_fs.h	2010-06-07 09:56:35.270022978 +0200
@@ -400,7 +400,6 @@ struct ext3_inode {
 #define EXT3_MOUNT_POSIX_ACL		0x08000	/* POSIX Access Control Lists */
 #define EXT3_MOUNT_RESERVATION		0x10000	/* Preallocation */
 #define EXT3_MOUNT_BARRIER		0x20000 /* Use block barriers */
-#define EXT3_MOUNT_NOBH			0x40000 /* No bufferheads */
 #define EXT3_MOUNT_QUOTA		0x80000 /* Some quota option set */
 #define EXT3_MOUNT_USRQUOTA		0x100000 /* "old" user quota */
 #define EXT3_MOUNT_GRPQUOTA		0x200000 /* "old" group quota */
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