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 --- fs/splice.c | 59 ----------------------------------------------------- include/linux/fs.h | 2 - 2 files changed, 61 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/fs/splice.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/splice.c 2009-04-14 18:36:32.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/splice.c 2009-04-14 19:01:16.000000000 +0200 @@ -811,65 +811,6 @@ ssize_t splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_ino } /** - * 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 Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/fs.h 2009-04-14 16:35:15.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h 2009-04-14 19:01:16.000000000 +0200 @@ -2150,8 +2150,6 @@ extern ssize_t generic_file_splice_read( struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int); extern ssize_t generic_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, unsigned int); -extern ssize_t generic_file_splice_write_nolock(struct pipe_inode_info *, - struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, unsigned int); extern ssize_t generic_splice_sendpage(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out, loff_t *, size_t len, unsigned int flags); extern long do_splice_direct(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos, struct file *out, -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/