[PATCH] revert ext3-writepages-support-for-writeback-mode

This had a fatal lock ranking bug: we do journal_start outside
mpage_writepages()'s lock_page().

Revert the whole thing, think again.

Credit-to: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

For identifying the bug.

Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mpage.h b/include/linux/mpage.h
index dea1b0083661..3ca880463c47 100644
--- a/include/linux/mpage.h
+++ b/include/linux/mpage.h
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@ int mpage_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
                 struct writeback_control *wbc, get_block_t get_block);
 int mpage_writepage(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
                 struct writeback_control *wbc);
-int __mpage_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
-                struct writeback_control *wbc, get_block_t get_block,
-                writepage_t writepage);
 
 static inline int
 generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)