These days we don't treat sync iocbs special in the aio completion code as they never use it. Remove the old comment and BUG_ON given that the current definition of is_sync_kiocb makes it impossible to hit. iocb to the top of the function. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/aio.c | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c index 03d59593912d..f536b0f249d4 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -1100,15 +1100,6 @@ static void aio_complete(struct kiocb *kiocb, long res, long res2) file_end_write(file); } - /* - * Special case handling for sync iocbs: - * - events go directly into the iocb for fast handling - * - the sync task with the iocb in its stack holds the single iocb - * ref, no other paths have a way to get another ref - * - the sync task helpfully left a reference to itself in the iocb - */ - BUG_ON(is_sync_kiocb(kiocb)); - if (iocb->ki_list.next) { unsigned long flags; -- 2.14.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html