nilfs2: get rid of private page allocator

Previously, nilfs was cloning pages for mmapped region to freeze their
data and ensure consistency of checksum during writeback cycles.  A
private page allocator was used for this page cloning.  But, we no
longer need to do that since clear_page_dirty_for_io function sets up
pte so that vm_ops->page_mkwrite function is called right before the
mmapped pages are modified and nilfs_page_mkwrite function can safely
wait for the pages to be written back to disk.

So, this stops making a copy of mmapped pages during writeback, and
eliminates the private page allocation and deallocation functions from
nilfs.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 52 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/page.c b/fs/nilfs2/page.c
index 1168059c7ef..b3b988c2018 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/page.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/page.c
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@
 
 #define NILFS_BUFFER_INHERENT_BITS  \
 	((1UL << BH_Uptodate) | (1UL << BH_Mapped) | (1UL << BH_NILFS_Node) | \
-	 (1UL << BH_NILFS_Volatile) | (1UL << BH_NILFS_Allocated) | \
-	 (1UL << BH_NILFS_Checked))
+	 (1UL << BH_NILFS_Volatile) | (1UL << BH_NILFS_Checked))
 
 static struct buffer_head *
 __nilfs_get_page_block(struct page *page, unsigned long block, pgoff_t index,
@@ -217,56 +216,6 @@ void nilfs_page_bug(struct page *page)
 }
 
 /**
- * nilfs_alloc_private_page - allocate a private page with buffer heads
- *
- * Return Value: On success, a pointer to the allocated page is returned.
- * On error, NULL is returned.
- */
-struct page *nilfs_alloc_private_page(struct block_device *bdev, int size,
-				      unsigned long state)
-{
-	struct buffer_head *bh, *head, *tail;
-	struct page *page;
-
-	page = alloc_page(GFP_NOFS); /* page_count of the returned page is 1 */
-	if (unlikely(!page))
-		return NULL;
-
-	lock_page(page);
-	head = alloc_page_buffers(page, size, 0);
-	if (unlikely(!head)) {
-		unlock_page(page);
-		__free_page(page);
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
-	bh = head;
-	do {
-		bh->b_state = (1UL << BH_NILFS_Allocated) | state;
-		tail = bh;
-		bh->b_bdev = bdev;
-		bh = bh->b_this_page;
-	} while (bh);
-
-	tail->b_this_page = head;
-	attach_page_buffers(page, head);
-
-	return page;
-}
-
-void nilfs_free_private_page(struct page *page)
-{
-	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
-	BUG_ON(page->mapping);
-
-	if (page_has_buffers(page) && !try_to_free_buffers(page))
-		NILFS_PAGE_BUG(page, "failed to free page");
-
-	unlock_page(page);
-	__free_page(page);
-}
-
-/**
  * nilfs_copy_page -- copy the page with buffers
  * @dst: destination page
  * @src: source page