Hi, Function __block_commit_write did nothing with the inode passed in and it always returned 0. This patch changes it to a void and gets rid of the overhead needed to pass in the inode. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/buffer.c | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index b8d28370cfd7..19bfc86e6a8f 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -2059,8 +2059,7 @@ int __block_write_begin(struct page *page, loff_t pos, unsigned len, } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__block_write_begin); -static int __block_commit_write(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, - unsigned from, unsigned to) +static void __block_commit_write(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned to) { unsigned block_start, block_end; int partial = 0; @@ -2094,7 +2093,6 @@ static int __block_commit_write(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, */ if (!partial) SetPageUptodate(page); - return 0; } /* @@ -2130,7 +2128,6 @@ int block_write_end(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping, loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied, struct page *page, void *fsdata) { - struct inode *inode = mapping->host; unsigned start; start = pos & (PAGE_SIZE - 1); @@ -2156,7 +2153,7 @@ int block_write_end(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping, flush_dcache_page(page); /* This could be a short (even 0-length) commit */ - __block_commit_write(inode, page, start, start+copied); + __block_commit_write(page, start, start+copied); return copied; } @@ -2469,8 +2466,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(cont_write_begin); int block_commit_write(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned to) { - struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host; - __block_commit_write(inode,page,from,to); + __block_commit_write(page, from, to); return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_commit_write);