After previous cleanups and optimizations, this function is no longer
heavily used and we don't have a good reason to keep it.  Update the few
remaining callers and get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
                perm = idr_find(&ids->ipcs_idr, next_id);
                if (perm == NULL)
                        continue;
-               ipc_lock_by_ptr(perm);
+               rcu_read_lock();
+               ipc_lock_object(perm);
                free(ns, perm);
                total++;
        }
 
                        continue;
                }
 
-               ipc_lock_by_ptr(ipc);
+               rcu_read_lock();
+               ipc_lock_object(ipc);
                return ipc;
        }
 
                ipc = idr_find(&ids->ipcs_idr, pos);
                if (ipc != NULL) {
                        *new_pos = pos + 1;
-                       ipc_lock_by_ptr(ipc);
+                       rcu_read_lock();
+                       ipc_lock_object(ipc);
                        return ipc;
                }
        }
 
        assert_spin_locked(&perm->lock);
 }
 
-static inline void ipc_lock_by_ptr(struct kern_ipc_perm *perm)
-{
-       rcu_read_lock();
-       ipc_lock_object(perm);
-}
-
 static inline void ipc_unlock(struct kern_ipc_perm *perm)
 {
        ipc_unlock_object(perm);