bdi->dev now never goes away, so this function became useless.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 18 +-----------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index ad88e60..826cb66 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -323,22 +323,6 @@ static void save_error_info(struct super_block *sb, const char *func,
ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
}
-/*
- * The del_gendisk() function uninitializes the disk-specific data
- * structures, including the bdi structure, without telling anyone
- * else. Once this happens, any attempt to call mark_buffer_dirty()
- * (for example, by ext4_commit_super), will cause a kernel OOPS.
- * This is a kludge to prevent these oops until we can put in a proper
- * hook in del_gendisk() to inform the VFS and file system layers.
- */
-static int block_device_ejected(struct super_block *sb)
-{
- struct inode *bd_inode = sb->s_bdev->bd_inode;
- struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(bd_inode);
-
- return bdi->dev == NULL;
-}
-
static void ext4_journal_commit_callback(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *txn)
{
struct super_block *sb = journal->j_private;
@@ -4544,7 +4528,7 @@ static int ext4_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, int sync)
struct buffer_head *sbh = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh;
int error = 0;
- if (!sbh || block_device_ejected(sb))
+ if (!sbh)
return error;
if (buffer_write_io_error(sbh)) {
/*
--
1.9.1
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