[PATCH] undo the brd.c part oframfs-and-ram-disk-pages-are-unevictable.patch

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu Jun 12 2008 - 13:54:19 EST


Undo the brd.c part of ramfs-and-ram-disk-pages-are-unevictable.patch.
The brd pages do not live on the LRU at all, so there is no need to
play these tricks.

Debugged-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/block/brd.c | 13 -------------
1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm2/drivers/block/brd.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm2.orig/drivers/block/brd.c 2008-06-11 14:39:43.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm2/drivers/block/brd.c 2008-06-12 13:49:18.000000000 -0400
@@ -374,21 +374,8 @@ static int brd_ioctl(struct inode *inode
return error;
}

-/*
- * brd_open():
- * Just mark the mapping as containing unevictable pages
- */
-static int brd_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
-{
- struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
-
- mapping_set_unevictable(mapping);
- return 0;
-}
-
static struct block_device_operations brd_fops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
- .open = brd_open,
.ioctl = brd_ioctl,
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XIP
.direct_access = brd_direct_access,

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