linux-kernel - [PATCH] erofs: remove useless cache strategy of DELAYEDALLOC

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Message-Id: <20211106081100.21478-1-huyue2@yulong.com>
Date:   Sat,  6 Nov 2021 16:11:00 +0800
From:   Yue Hu <huyue2@...ong.com>
To:     xiang@...nel.org, chao@...nel.org, linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zhangwen@...ong.com,
        geshifei@...ong.com, zbestahu@...il.com, Yue Hu <huyue2@...ong.com>
Subject: [PATCH] erofs: remove useless cache strategy of DELAYEDALLOC

DELAYEDALLOC is not used at all, remove related dead code.

Signed-off-by: Yue Hu <huyue2@...ong.com>
---
 fs/erofs/zdata.c | 20 --------------------
 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/erofs/zdata.c b/fs/erofs/zdata.c
index bcb1b91b234f..812c7c6ae456 100644
--- a/fs/erofs/zdata.c
+++ b/fs/erofs/zdata.c
@@ -96,16 +96,9 @@ static void z_erofs_free_pcluster(struct z_erofs_pcluster *pcl)
 	DBG_BUGON(1);
 }
 
-/*
- * a compressed_pages[] placeholder in order to avoid
- * being filled with file pages for in-place decompression.
- */
-#define PAGE_UNALLOCATED     ((void *)0x5F0E4B1D)
-
 /* how to allocate cached pages for a pcluster */
 enum z_erofs_cache_alloctype {
 	DONTALLOC,	/* don't allocate any cached pages */
-	DELAYEDALLOC,	/* delayed allocation (at the time of submitting io) */
 	/*
 	 * try to use cached I/O if page allocation succeeds or fallback
 	 * to in-place I/O instead to avoid any direct reclaim.
@@ -267,10 +260,6 @@ static void preload_compressed_pages(struct z_erofs_collector *clt,
 			/* I/O is needed, no possible to decompress directly */
 			standalone = false;
 			switch (type) {
-			case DELAYEDALLOC:
-				t = tagptr_init(compressed_page_t,
-						PAGE_UNALLOCATED);
-				break;
 			case TRYALLOC:
 				newpage = erofs_allocpage(pagepool, gfp);
 				if (!newpage)
@@ -1089,15 +1078,6 @@ static struct page *pickup_page_for_submission(struct z_erofs_pcluster *pcl,
 	if (!page)
 		goto out_allocpage;
 
-	/*
-	 * the cached page has not been allocated and
-	 * an placeholder is out there, prepare it now.
-	 */
-	if (page == PAGE_UNALLOCATED) {
-		tocache = true;
-		goto out_allocpage;
-	}
-
 	/* process the target tagged pointer */
 	t = tagptr_init(compressed_page_t, page);
 	justfound = tagptr_unfold_tags(t);
-- 
2.17.1