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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-03-15 20:26:02 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-05-26 14:27:06 -0700
commitc18cb57f81d42eb408fa7f0fb15b9f4f3f9998fb (patch)
tree6cc1405a7c3c79c1f83e67e30e97cc9bf2693931
parentc5b9b87a471f1226978d2dcca15e5fd72ac07af5 (diff)
vfs: Remove the range_cont writeback mode.
commit 74baaaaec8b4f22e1ae279f5ecca4ff705b28912 upstream. Ext4 was the only user of range_cont writeback mode and ext4 switched to a different method. So remove the range_cont mode which is not used in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jayson R. King <dev@jaysonking.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/writeback.h1
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c2
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index c2835bb868e..cc0e6d98c53 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ struct writeback_control {
unsigned for_writepages:1; /* This is a writepages() call */
unsigned range_cyclic:1; /* range_start is cyclic */
unsigned more_io:1; /* more io to be dispatched */
- unsigned range_cont:1;
};
/*
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 5f7cdc254e6..e5c4ca2fc55 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1027,8 +1027,6 @@ continue_unlock:
if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
- if (wbc->range_cont)
- wbc->range_start = index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages);