Merge branch 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin

* 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin: (57 commits)
  fs: scale mntget/mntput
  fs: rename vfsmount counter helpers
  fs: implement faster dentry memcmp
  fs: prefetch inode data in dcache lookup
  fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems
  fs: dcache per-inode inode alias locking
  fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash locking
  bit_spinlock: add required includes
  kernel: add bl_list
  xfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
  btrfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
  ext2,3,4: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
  fs: provide simple rcu-walk generic_check_acl implementation
  fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops
  fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method
  fs: cache optimise dentry and inode for rcu-walk
  fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path
  fs: dcache remove d_mounted
  fs: fs_struct use seqlock
  fs: rcu-walk for path lookup
  ...

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 73dac81e9f78..f126975ef23e 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -186,27 +186,6 @@ void kzfree(const void *p)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree);
 
-int kern_ptr_validate(const void *ptr, unsigned long size)
-{
-        unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)ptr;
-        unsigned long min_addr = PAGE_OFFSET;
-        unsigned long align_mask = sizeof(void *) - 1;
-
-        if (unlikely(addr < min_addr))
-                goto out;
-        if (unlikely(addr > (unsigned long)high_memory - size))
-                goto out;
-        if (unlikely(addr & align_mask))
-                goto out;
-        if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr)))
-                goto out;
-        if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr + size - 1)))
-                goto out;
-        return 1;
-out:
-        return 0;
-}
-
 /*
  * strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
  * @s: The string to duplicate