[PATCH] kill ->put_inode

And with that last patch to affs killing the last put_inode instance we
can finally, after many years of transition kill this racy and awkward
interface.

(It's kinda funny that even the description in
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt was entirely wrong..)

Also remove a very misleading comment above the defintion of
struct super_operations.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index c2992bc54f2f49f0f7caee130acf19205df7511a..8b22d7d8b99166b6db2e037644e9c5d7ff03695e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ prototypes:
        void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *);
        void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *);
        int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, int);
-       void (*put_inode) (struct inode *);
        void (*drop_inode) (struct inode *);
        void (*delete_inode) (struct inode *);
        void (*put_super) (struct super_block *);
@@ -115,7 +114,6 @@ alloc_inode:                no      no      no
 destroy_inode:         no
 dirty_inode:           no                              (must not sleep)
 write_inode:           no
-put_inode:             no
 drop_inode:            no                              !!!inode_lock!!!
 delete_inode:          no
 put_super:             yes     yes     no

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 81e5be6e6e356e8ab3feb4e92b972fd0862db1a9..b7522c6cbae3758f77cb12e22b78825e43a3796d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ struct super_operations {
 
         void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *);
         int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, int);
-        void (*put_inode) (struct inode *);
         void (*drop_inode) (struct inode *);
         void (*delete_inode) (struct inode *);
         void (*put_super) (struct super_block *);
@@ -246,9 +245,6 @@ or bottom half).
        inode to disc.  The second parameter indicates whether the write
        should be synchronous or not, not all filesystems check this flag.
 
-  put_inode: called when the VFS inode is removed from the inode
-       cache.
-
   drop_inode: called when the last access to the inode is dropped,
        with the inode_lock spinlock held.
 

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index bf64781304243f62cc1ff52f9f395724651103d7..18bdce14b70c2b9fd037ae2d8f6c25cedf4e0371 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1153,9 +1153,6 @@ void iput(struct inode *inode)
 
                BUG_ON(inode->i_state == I_CLEAR);
 
-               if (op && op->put_inode)
-                       op->put_inode(inode);
-
                if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&inode->i_count, &inode_lock))
                        iput_final(inode);
        }

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index a1ba005d08e7ef80f441d00a7f5d934582fe13e6..7e0fa9e644790b3fdf6ea531f66dc803c66e1882 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1289,17 +1289,12 @@ extern ssize_t vfs_readv(struct file *, const struct iovec __user *,
 extern ssize_t vfs_writev(struct file *, const struct iovec __user *,
                unsigned long, loff_t *);
 
-/*
- * NOTE: write_inode, delete_inode, clear_inode, put_inode can be called
- * without the big kernel lock held in all filesystems.
- */
 struct super_operations {
        struct inode *(*alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb);
        void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *);
 
        void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *);
        int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, int);
-       void (*put_inode) (struct inode *);
        void (*drop_inode) (struct inode *);
        void (*delete_inode) (struct inode *);
        void (*put_super) (struct super_block *);