remove ratelimt()

It mistakenly assumes that a static local in an inlined function is a
kernel-wide singleton.  It also has no callers, so let's remove it.

Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ratelimit.h b/include/linux/ratelimit.h
index 18a5b9ba9d4..00044b85645 100644
--- a/include/linux/ratelimit.h
+++ b/include/linux/ratelimit.h
@@ -17,11 +17,4 @@ struct ratelimit_state {
                 struct ratelimit_state name = {interval, burst,}
 
 extern int __ratelimit(struct ratelimit_state *rs);
-
-static inline int ratelimit(void)
-{
-        static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(rs, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,
-                                        DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);
-        return __ratelimit(&rs);
-}
 #endif