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fs: remove prepare_write/commit_write

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Nothing uses prepare_write or commit_write. Remove them from the tree
completely.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: schedule simple_prepare_write() for unexporting]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nick Piggin
2008-10-29 14:00:55 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9b913735e5
commit 4e02ed4b4a
9 changed files with 23 additions and 293 deletions
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@@ -161,8 +161,12 @@ prototypes:
int (*set_page_dirty)(struct page *page);
int (*readpages)(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping,
struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages);
int (*prepare_write)(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned, unsigned);
int (*commit_write)(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned, unsigned);
int (*write_begin)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
struct page **pagep, void **fsdata);
int (*write_end)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied,
struct page *page, void *fsdata);
sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t);
int (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned long);
int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int);
@@ -180,8 +184,6 @@ sync_page: no maybe
writepages: no
set_page_dirty no no
readpages: no
prepare_write: no yes yes
commit_write: no yes yes
write_begin: no locks the page yes
write_end: no yes, unlocks yes
perform_write: no n/a yes
@@ -191,7 +193,7 @@ releasepage: no yes
direct_IO: no
launder_page: no yes
->prepare_write(), ->commit_write(), ->sync_page() and ->readpage()
->write_begin(), ->write_end(), ->sync_page() and ->readpage()
may be called from the request handler (/dev/loop).
->readpage() unlocks the page, either synchronously or via I/O