The patch titled
Subject: fs: proc: remove PDE_DATA()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fs-proc-remove-pde_data.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-proc-remove-pde_data.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-proc-remove-pde_data.patch
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From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fs: proc: remove PDE_DATA()
There are no users of PDE_DATA() and we do not need it anymore, just
remove it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211101093518.86845-4-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/generic.c | 6 ------
fs/proc/internal.h | 5 -----
include/linux/proc_fs.h | 2 --
3 files changed, 13 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c~fs-proc-remove-pde_data
+++ a/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -791,12 +791,6 @@ void proc_remove(struct proc_dir_entry *
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_remove);
-void *PDE_DATA(const struct inode *inode)
-{
- return __PDE_DATA(inode);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(PDE_DATA);
-
/*
* Pull a user buffer into memory and pass it to the file's write handler if
* one is supplied. The ->write() method is permitted to modify the
--- a/fs/proc/internal.h~fs-proc-remove-pde_data
+++ a/fs/proc/internal.h
@@ -115,11 +115,6 @@ static inline struct proc_dir_entry *PDE
return PROC_I(inode)->pde;
}
-static inline void *__PDE_DATA(const struct inode *inode)
-{
- return PDE(inode)->data;
-}
-
static inline struct pid *proc_pid(const struct inode *inode)
{
return PROC_I(inode)->pid;
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h~fs-proc-remove-pde_data
+++ a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ extern struct proc_dir_entry *proc_creat
struct proc_dir_entry *proc_create(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct proc_dir_entry *parent, const struct proc_ops *proc_ops);
extern void proc_set_size(struct proc_dir_entry *, loff_t);
extern void proc_set_user(struct proc_dir_entry *, kuid_t, kgid_t);
-extern void *PDE_DATA(const struct inode *);
extern void *proc_get_parent_data(const struct inode *);
extern void proc_remove(struct proc_dir_entry *);
extern void remove_proc_entry(const char *, struct proc_dir_entry *);
@@ -183,7 +182,6 @@ static inline struct proc_dir_entry *pro
static inline void proc_set_size(struct proc_dir_entry *de, loff_t size) {}
static inline void proc_set_user(struct proc_dir_entry *de, kuid_t uid, kgid_t gid) {}
-static inline void *PDE_DATA(const struct inode *inode) {BUG(); return NULL;}
static inline void *proc_get_parent_data(const struct inode *inode) { BUG(); return NULL; }
static inline void proc_remove(struct proc_dir_entry *de) {}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-slab-make-slab-iterator-functions-static.patch
mm-memcontrol-make-cgroup_memory_nokmem-static.patch
fs-proc-store-pde-data-into-inode-i_private.patch
fs-proc-replace-pde_datainode-with-inode-i_private.patch
fs-proc-remove-pde_data.patch
fs-proc-use-define_proc_show_attribute-to-simplify-the-code.patch
