nilfs2: get rid of private page allocator

Previously, nilfs was cloning pages for mmapped region to freeze their
data and ensure consistency of checksum during writeback cycles.  A
private page allocator was used for this page cloning.  But, we no
longer need to do that since clear_page_dirty_for_io function sets up
pte so that vm_ops->page_mkwrite function is called right before the
mmapped pages are modified and nilfs_page_mkwrite function can safely
wait for the pages to be written back to disk.

So, this stops making a copy of mmapped pages during writeback, and
eliminates the private page allocation and deallocation functions from
nilfs.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/page.h b/fs/nilfs2/page.h
index f06b79ad7493..f827afabd548 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/page.h
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/page.h
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ enum {
         BH_NILFS_Redirected,
 };
 
-BUFFER_FNS(NILFS_Allocated, nilfs_allocated)    /* nilfs private buffers */
 BUFFER_FNS(NILFS_Node, nilfs_node)              /* nilfs node buffers */
 BUFFER_FNS(NILFS_Volatile, nilfs_volatile)
 BUFFER_FNS(NILFS_Checked, nilfs_checked)        /* buffer is verified */
@@ -54,9 +53,6 @@ void nilfs_forget_buffer(struct buffer_head *);
 void nilfs_copy_buffer(struct buffer_head *, struct buffer_head *);
 int nilfs_page_buffers_clean(struct page *);
 void nilfs_page_bug(struct page *);
-struct page *nilfs_alloc_private_page(struct block_device *, int,
-                                      unsigned long);
-void nilfs_free_private_page(struct page *);
 
 int nilfs_copy_dirty_pages(struct address_space *, struct address_space *);
 void nilfs_copy_back_pages(struct address_space *, struct address_space *);