[PATCH] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead

This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces them with
aio_read()/aio_write() methods.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index f6c1d22b504f..48497094ae83 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2421,42 +2421,6 @@ ssize_t generic_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_write);
 
-ssize_t generic_file_readv(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov,
-                        unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-        struct kiocb kiocb;
-        ssize_t ret;
-
-        init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp);
-        ret = __generic_file_aio_read(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
-        if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
-                ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
-        return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_readv);
-
-ssize_t generic_file_writev(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
-                        unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-        struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
-        struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
-        ssize_t ret;
-
-        mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-        ret = __generic_file_write_nolock(file, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
-        mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
-        if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
-                int err;
-
-                err = sync_page_range(inode, mapping, *ppos - ret, ret);
-                if (err < 0)
-                        ret = err;
-        }
-        return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_writev);
-
 /*
  * Called under i_mutex for writes to S_ISREG files.   Returns -EIO if something
  * went wrong during pagecache shootdown.