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diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 83a45d35468b..380776c2a9ac 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -155,45 +155,15 @@ void remove_from_page_cache(struct page *page)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_from_page_cache);
-static int sync_page(void *word)
+static int sleep_on_page(void *word)
{
- struct address_space *mapping;
- struct page *page;
-
- page = container_of((unsigned long *)word, struct page, flags);
-
- /*
- * page_mapping() is being called without PG_locked held.
- * Some knowledge of the state and use of the page is used to
- * reduce the requirements down to a memory barrier.
- * The danger here is of a stale page_mapping() return value
- * indicating a struct address_space different from the one it's
- * associated with when it is associated with one.
- * After smp_mb(), it's either the correct page_mapping() for
- * the page, or an old page_mapping() and the page's own
- * page_mapping() has gone NULL.
- * The ->sync_page() address_space operation must tolerate
- * page_mapping() going NULL. By an amazing coincidence,
- * this comes about because none of the users of the page
- * in the ->sync_page() methods make essential use of the
- * page_mapping(), merely passing the page down to the backing
- * device's unplug functions when it's non-NULL, which in turn
- * ignore it for all cases but swap, where only page_private(page) is
- * of interest. When page_mapping() does go NULL, the entire
- * call stack gracefully ignores the page and returns.
- * -- wli
- */
- smp_mb();
- mapping = page_mapping(page);
- if (mapping && mapping->a_ops && mapping->a_ops->sync_page)
- mapping->a_ops->sync_page(page);
io_schedule();
return 0;
}
-static int sync_page_killable(void *word)
+static int sleep_on_page_killable(void *word)
{
- sync_page(word);
+ sleep_on_page(word);
return fatal_signal_pending(current) ? -EINTR : 0;
}
@@ -479,12 +449,6 @@ struct page *__page_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_cache_alloc);
#endif
-static int __sleep_on_page_lock(void *word)
-{
- io_schedule();
- return 0;
-}
-
/*
* In order to wait for pages to become available there must be
* waitqueues associated with pages. By using a hash table of
@@ -512,7 +476,7 @@ void wait_on_page_bit(struct page *page, int bit_nr)
DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(wait, &page->flags, bit_nr);
if (test_bit(bit_nr, &page->flags))
- __wait_on_bit(page_waitqueue(page), &wait, sync_page,
+ __wait_on_bit(page_waitqueue(page), &wait, sleep_on_page,
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_on_page_bit);
@@ -576,17 +540,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(end_page_writeback);
/**
* __lock_page - get a lock on the page, assuming we need to sleep to get it
* @page: the page to lock
- *
- * Ugly. Running sync_page() in state TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE is scary. If some
- * random driver's requestfn sets TASK_RUNNING, we could busywait. However
- * chances are that on the second loop, the block layer's plug list is empty,
- * so sync_page() will then return in state TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE.
*/
void __lock_page(struct page *page)
{
DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(wait, &page->flags, PG_locked);
- __wait_on_bit_lock(page_waitqueue(page), &wait, sync_page,
+ __wait_on_bit_lock(page_waitqueue(page), &wait, sleep_on_page,
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__lock_page);
@@ -596,24 +555,10 @@ int __lock_page_killable(struct page *page)
DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(wait, &page->flags, PG_locked);
return __wait_on_bit_lock(page_waitqueue(page), &wait,
- sync_page_killable, TASK_KILLABLE);
+ sleep_on_page_killable, TASK_KILLABLE);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__lock_page_killable);
-/**
- * __lock_page_nosync - get a lock on the page, without calling sync_page()
- * @page: the page to lock
- *
- * Variant of lock_page that does not require the caller to hold a reference
- * on the page's mapping.
- */
-void __lock_page_nosync(struct page *page)
-{
- DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(wait, &page->flags, PG_locked);
- __wait_on_bit_lock(page_waitqueue(page), &wait, __sleep_on_page_lock,
- TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
-}
-
int __lock_page_or_retry(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned int flags)
{