linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/4] mm/gup: remove unused pin_user_pages

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Message-ID: <20220131051752.447699-4-jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Date:   Sun, 30 Jan 2022 21:17:51 -0800
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
CC:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] mm/gup: remove unused pin_user_pages_locked()

This routine was used for a short while, but then the calling code was
refactored and the only caller was removed.

Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
---
 include/linux/mm.h |  2 --
 mm/gup.c           | 29 -----------------------------
 2 files changed, 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 213cc569b192..80c540c17d83 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1918,8 +1918,6 @@ long pin_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
 		    struct vm_area_struct **vmas);
 long get_user_pages_locked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
 		    unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages, int *locked);
-long pin_user_pages_locked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
-		    unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages, int *locked);
 long get_user_pages_unlocked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
 		    struct page **pages, unsigned int gup_flags);
 long pin_user_pages_unlocked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 8633bca12eab..58d01a96ab30 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -3120,32 +3120,3 @@ long pin_user_pages_unlocked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
 	return get_user_pages_unlocked(start, nr_pages, pages, gup_flags);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(pin_user_pages_unlocked);
-
-/*
- * pin_user_pages_locked() is the FOLL_PIN variant of get_user_pages_locked().
- * Behavior is the same, except that this one sets FOLL_PIN and rejects
- * FOLL_GET.
- */
-long pin_user_pages_locked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
-			   unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages,
-			   int *locked)
-{
-	/*
-	 * FIXME: Current FOLL_LONGTERM behavior is incompatible with
-	 * FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY because of the FS DAX check requirement on
-	 * vmas.  As there are no users of this flag in this call we simply
-	 * disallow this option for now.
-	 */
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gup_flags & FOLL_LONGTERM))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	/* FOLL_GET and FOLL_PIN are mutually exclusive. */
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gup_flags & FOLL_GET))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	gup_flags |= FOLL_PIN;
-	return __get_user_pages_locked(current->mm, start, nr_pages,
-				       pages, NULL, locked,
-				       gup_flags | FOLL_TOUCH);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(pin_user_pages_locked);
-- 
2.35.0