The patch titled Subject: writeback: remove unused function parameter has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was writeback-remove-the-unused-function-parameter.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Wang Long <wanglong19@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: writeback: remove unused function parameter The parameter `struct bdi_writeback *wb` is not been used in the function body. Remove it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509685485-15278-1-git-send-email-wanglong19@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wang Long <wanglong19@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 2 +- mm/page-writeback.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/backing-dev.h~writeback-remove-the-unused-function-parameter include/linux/backing-dev.h --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h~writeback-remove-the-unused-function-parameter +++ a/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ extern void wb_writeout_inc(struct bdi_w /* * maximal error of a stat counter. */ -static inline unsigned long wb_stat_error(struct bdi_writeback *wb) +static inline unsigned long wb_stat_error(void) { #ifdef CONFIG_SMP return nr_cpu_ids * WB_STAT_BATCH; diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~writeback-remove-the-unused-function-parameter mm/page-writeback.c --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~writeback-remove-the-unused-function-parameter +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1545,7 +1545,7 @@ static inline void wb_dirty_limits(struc * actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu * deltas. */ - if (dtc->wb_thresh < 2 * wb_stat_error(wb)) { + if (dtc->wb_thresh < 2 * wb_stat_error()) { wb_reclaimable = wb_stat_sum(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE); dtc->wb_dirty = wb_reclaimable + wb_stat_sum(wb, WB_WRITEBACK); } else { @@ -1803,7 +1803,7 @@ pause: * more page. However wb_dirty has accounting errors. So use * the larger and more IO friendly wb_stat_error. */ - if (sdtc->wb_dirty <= wb_stat_error(wb)) + if (sdtc->wb_dirty <= wb_stat_error()) break; if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from wanglong19@xxxxxxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html