linux-kernel - [PATCH] rd: Remove ramdisk_set_page

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 10:40:03 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rd: Remove ramdisk_set_page_dirty


The generic function __set_page_dirty_buffers called by default by
set_page_dirty appears to be a correct superset of ramdisk_set_page_dirty.
So remove the specialized ramdisk version.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 drivers/block/rd.c |   27 ---------------------------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/rd.c b/drivers/block/rd.c
index 56b2b54..26b4c6f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/rd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/rd.c
@@ -114,37 +114,10 @@ static int ramdisk_readpage(struct file *file, struct page *page)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-/*
- * ramdisk blockdev pages have their own ->set_page_dirty() because we don't
- * want them to contribute to dirty memory accounting.
- */
-static int ramdisk_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
-{
-	struct address_space * const mapping = page_mapping(page);
-
-	spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
-	if (page_has_buffers(page)) {
-		struct buffer_head *head = page_buffers(page);
-		struct buffer_head *bh = head;
-
-		do {
-			set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
-			set_buffer_dirty(bh);
-			bh = bh->b_this_page;
-		} while (bh != head);
-	}
-	spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
-
-	if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
-		return 1;
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static const struct address_space_operations ramdisk_aops = {
 	.readpage	= ramdisk_readpage,
 	.prepare_write	= simple_prepare_write,
 	.commit_write	= simple_commit_write,
-	.set_page_dirty	= ramdisk_set_page_dirty,
 };
 
 static int rd_blkdev_pagecache_IO(int rw, struct bio_vec *vec, sector_t sector,
-- 
1.5.1.1.181.g2de0

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