Re: [PATCH] Remove two unneeded exports and make two symbolsstatic in fs/mpage.c

From: Aneesh Kumar K.V
Date: Tue Mar 31 2009 - 00:39:22 EST


On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:41:20AM +0300, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote:
> Commit 29a814d2ee0e43c2980f33f91c1311ec06c0aa35 (vfs: add hooks for
> ext4's delayed allocation support) exported the following functions
>
> mpage_bio_submit()
> __mpage_writepage()
>
> for the benefit of ext4's delayed allocation support. Since commit
> a1d6cc563bfdf1bf2829d3e6ce4d8b774251796b (ext4: Rework the
> ext4_da_writepages() function), these functions are not used by the
> ext4 driver anymore. However, the now unnecessary exports still
> remain, and this patch removes those. Moreover, these two functions
> can become static again.
>
> The issue was spotted by namespacecheck.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> fs/mpage.c | 13 +++++++++----
> include/linux/mpage.h | 10 ----------
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/mpage.c b/fs/mpage.c
> index 16c3ef3..680ba60 100644
> --- a/fs/mpage.c
> +++ b/fs/mpage.c
> @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static void mpage_end_io_write(struct bio *bio, int err)
> bio_put(bio);
> }
>
> -struct bio *mpage_bio_submit(int rw, struct bio *bio)
> +static struct bio *mpage_bio_submit(int rw, struct bio *bio)
> {
> bio->bi_end_io = mpage_end_io_read;
> if (rw == WRITE)
> @@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ struct bio *mpage_bio_submit(int rw, struct bio *bio)
> submit_bio(rw, bio);
> return NULL;
> }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(mpage_bio_submit);
>
> static struct bio *
> mpage_alloc(struct block_device *bdev,
> @@ -439,7 +438,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mpage_readpage);
> * just allocate full-size (16-page) BIOs.
> */
>
> -int __mpage_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
> +struct mpage_data {
> + struct bio *bio;
> + sector_t last_block_in_bio;
> + get_block_t *get_block;
> + unsigned use_writepage;
> +};
> +
> +static int __mpage_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
> void *data)
> {
> struct mpage_data *mpd = data;
> @@ -648,7 +654,6 @@ out:
> mpd->bio = bio;
> return ret;
> }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__mpage_writepage);
>
> /**
> * mpage_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space & writepage() all of them
> diff --git a/include/linux/mpage.h b/include/linux/mpage.h
> index 5c42821..068a0c9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mpage.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mpage.h
> @@ -11,21 +11,11 @@
> */
> #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
>
> -struct mpage_data {
> - struct bio *bio;
> - sector_t last_block_in_bio;
> - get_block_t *get_block;
> - unsigned use_writepage;
> -};
> -
> struct writeback_control;
>
> -struct bio *mpage_bio_submit(int rw, struct bio *bio);
> int mpage_readpages(struct address_space *mapping, struct list_head *pages,
> unsigned nr_pages, get_block_t get_block);
> int mpage_readpage(struct page *page, get_block_t get_block);
> -int __mpage_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
> - void *data);
> int mpage_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
> struct writeback_control *wbc, get_block_t get_block);
> int mpage_writepage(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
> --
> 1.5.6.3
>
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