[PATCH] ring-buffer: Remove unused function ring_buffer_page_len()

From: Miroslav Benes
Date: Fri Dec 28 2018 - 08:38:59 EST


Commit 6b7e633fe9c2 ("tracing: Remove extra zeroing out of the ring
buffer page") removed the only caller of ring_buffer_page_len(). The
function is now unused and may be removed.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>
---
I am sorry if you received the patch more than once (hopefully not). For some
strange reasons git send-email segfaulted, I tried to send from a different
machine and made a mistake. Holiday mode *sigh*.

include/linux/ring_buffer.h | 3 ---
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 14 --------------
2 files changed, 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
index 0940fda59872..2351aa46dbc7 100644
--- a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
+++ b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
@@ -187,9 +187,6 @@ void ring_buffer_set_clock(struct ring_buffer *buffer,
void ring_buffer_set_time_stamp_abs(struct ring_buffer *buffer, bool abs);
bool ring_buffer_time_stamp_abs(struct ring_buffer *buffer);

-size_t ring_buffer_page_len(void *page);
-
-
void *ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
void ring_buffer_free_read_page(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, void *data);
int ring_buffer_read_page(struct ring_buffer *buffer, void **data_page,
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 4f3247a53259..ca1308eec4a4 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -353,20 +353,6 @@ static void rb_init_page(struct buffer_data_page *bpage)
local_set(&bpage->commit, 0);
}

-/**
- * ring_buffer_page_len - the size of data on the page.
- * @page: The page to read
- *
- * Returns the amount of data on the page, including buffer page header.
- */
-size_t ring_buffer_page_len(void *page)
-{
- struct buffer_data_page *bpage = page;
-
- return (local_read(&bpage->commit) & ~RB_MISSED_FLAGS)
- + BUF_PAGE_HDR_SIZE;
-}
-
/*
* Also stolen from mm/slob.c. Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for pointing
* this issue out.
--
2.20.1