Now that dax_flush() is no longer a driver callback (commit c3ca015fab6d
"dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction"), stop requiring the
dax_read_lock() to be held and the device to be alive. This is in
preparation for switching filesystem-dax to store pfns instead of
sectors in the radix.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dax/super.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dax/super.c b/drivers/dax/super.c
index 26c324a5aef4..be65430b4483 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/super.c
+++ b/drivers/dax/super.c
@@ -280,9 +280,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_copy_from_iter);
void arch_wb_cache_pmem(void *addr, size_t size);
void dax_flush(struct dax_device *dax_dev, void *addr, size_t size)
{
- if (unlikely(!dax_alive(dax_dev)))
- return;
-
if (unlikely(!test_bit(DAXDEV_WRITE_CACHE, &dax_dev->flags)))
return;
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