[08/11] vfs: Remove the range_cont writeback mode.

[Jayson R. King]

From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Oct 14 09:21:02 2008 -0400
Subject: vfs: Remove the range_cont writeback mode.

commit 74baaaaec8b4f22e1ae279f5ecca4ff705b28912 upstream.

Ext4 was the only user of range_cont writeback mode and ext4 switched
to a different method. So remove the range_cont mode which is not used
in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
CC: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jayson R. King <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 include/linux/writeback.h |    1 -
 mm/page-writeback.c       |    2 --
 2 files changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff -urNp linux-2.6.27.orig/include/linux/writeback.h linux-2.6.27/include/linux/writeback.h
--- linux-2.6.27.orig/include/linux/writeback.h	2010-02-26 14:10:42.106252410 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.27/include/linux/writeback.h	2010-02-26 14:25:58.868253029 -0600
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ struct writeback_control {
 	unsigned for_writepages:1;	/* This is a writepages() call */
 	unsigned range_cyclic:1;	/* range_start is cyclic */
 	unsigned more_io:1;		/* more io to be dispatched */
-	unsigned range_cont:1;
 };
 
 /*
diff -urNp linux-2.6.27.orig/mm/page-writeback.c linux-2.6.27/mm/page-writeback.c
--- linux-2.6.27.orig/mm/page-writeback.c	2010-02-26 14:10:42.197252340 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.27/mm/page-writeback.c	2010-02-26 14:25:58.869252611 -0600
@@ -1027,8 +1027,6 @@ continue_unlock:
 	if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
 		mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
 
-	if (wbc->range_cont)
-		wbc->range_start = index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages);
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