ext4: remove unused function __ext4_write_dirty_metadata

The __ext4_write_dirty_metadata() function was introduced by commit
0390131b, "ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journal", but nothing
ever used the function, either then or since.  So let's remove it and
save a bit of space.

Cc: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index dadd3f995db5..14c00fff3713 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4790,25 +4790,6 @@ int ext4_write_inode(struct inode *inode, int wait)
         return ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
 }
 
-int __ext4_write_dirty_metadata(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *bh)
-{
-        int err = 0;
-
-        mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
-        if (inode && inode_needs_sync(inode)) {
-                sync_dirty_buffer(bh);
-                if (buffer_req(bh) && !buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
-                        ext4_error(inode->i_sb, __func__,
-                                   "IO error syncing inode, "
-                                   "inode=%lu, block=%llu",
-                                   inode->i_ino,
-                                   (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr);
-                        err = -EIO;
-                }
-        }
-        return err;
-}
-
 /*
  * ext4_setattr()
  *