dm bufio: delete unused and inefficient dm_bufio_discard_buffers

There is no user for this interface.  If in future it is needed it can
be reimplemented to walk the rbtree of buffers instead of doing
block-by-block lookups.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
index bf289be1ee3a198add5e890bdb3a064e4a649bf3..993e624e506c2fbea07e15f5c72f2ccaf59b14c7 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -1358,32 +1358,6 @@ int dm_bufio_issue_discard(struct dm_bufio_client *c, sector_t block, sector_t c
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dm_bufio_issue_discard);
 
-/*
- * Free the specified range of buffers. If a buffer is held by other process, it
- * is not freed. If a buffer is dirty, it is discarded without writeback.
- * Finally, send the discard request to the device.
- */
-int dm_bufio_discard_buffers(struct dm_bufio_client *c, sector_t block, sector_t count)
-{
-       sector_t i;
-
-       for (i = block; i < block + count; i++) {
-               struct dm_buffer *b;
-               dm_bufio_lock(c);
-               b = __find(c, i);
-               if (b && likely(!b->hold_count)) {
-                       wait_on_bit_io(&b->state, B_READING, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
-                       wait_on_bit_io(&b->state, B_WRITING, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
-                       __unlink_buffer(b);
-                       __free_buffer_wake(b);
-               }
-               dm_bufio_unlock(c);
-       }
-
-       return dm_bufio_issue_discard(c, block, count);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dm_bufio_discard_buffers);
-
 /*
  * We first delete any other buffer that may be at that new location.
  *

diff --git a/include/linux/dm-bufio.h b/include/linux/dm-bufio.h
index 07e1f163e299dd39bd8e9940f369f7190437659a..5ec6bfbde9ae131c986ce376b14ae9e518053df9 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/dm-bufio.h
+++ b/include/linux/dm-bufio.h
@@ -123,13 +123,6 @@ int dm_bufio_issue_flush(struct dm_bufio_client *c);
  */
 int dm_bufio_issue_discard(struct dm_bufio_client *c, sector_t block, sector_t count);
 
-/*
- * Free the specified range of buffers. If a buffer is held by other process, it
- * is not freed. If a buffer is dirty, it is discarded without writeback.
- * Finally, send the discard request to the device.
- */
-int dm_bufio_discard_buffers(struct dm_bufio_client *c, sector_t block, sector_t count);
-
 /*
  * Like dm_bufio_release but also move the buffer to the new
  * block. dm_bufio_write_dirty_buffers is needed to commit the new block.