The quilt patch titled Subject: fs/buffer: remove bh_submit_read() helper has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fs-buffer-remove-bh_submit_read-helper.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/buffer: remove bh_submit_read() helper Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 21:35:05 +0800 bh_submit_read() has no user anymore, just remove it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220901133505.2510834-15-yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/buffer.c | 25 ------------------------- include/linux/buffer_head.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 26 deletions(-) --- a/fs/buffer.c~fs-buffer-remove-bh_submit_read-helper +++ a/fs/buffer.c @@ -3025,31 +3025,6 @@ void __bh_read_batch(int nr, struct buff } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__bh_read_batch); -/** - * bh_submit_read - Submit a locked buffer for reading - * @bh: struct buffer_head - * - * Returns zero on success and -EIO on error. - */ -int bh_submit_read(struct buffer_head *bh) -{ - BUG_ON(!buffer_locked(bh)); - - if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) { - unlock_buffer(bh); - return 0; - } - - get_bh(bh); - bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_read_sync; - submit_bh(REQ_OP_READ, bh); - wait_on_buffer(bh); - if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) - return 0; - return -EIO; -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(bh_submit_read); - void __init buffer_init(void) { unsigned long nrpages; --- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h~fs-buffer-remove-bh_submit_read-helper +++ a/include/linux/buffer_head.h @@ -230,7 +230,6 @@ int submit_bh(blk_opf_t, struct buffer_h void write_boundary_block(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t bblock, unsigned blocksize); int bh_uptodate_or_lock(struct buffer_head *bh); -int bh_submit_read(struct buffer_head *bh); int __bh_read(struct buffer_head *bh, blk_opf_t op_flags, bool wait); void __bh_read_batch(int nr, struct buffer_head *bhs[], blk_opf_t op_flags, bool force_lock); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx are