1 files changed, 0 insertions, 48 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd/transaction.c b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
index ed886e6db399..73242ba7c7b1 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
@@ -1686,35 +1686,6 @@ out:
         return;
 }
 
-/*
- * journal_try_to_free_buffers() could race with journal_commit_transaction()
- * The latter might still hold the a count on buffers when inspecting
- * them on t_syncdata_list or t_locked_list.
- *
- * journal_try_to_free_buffers() will call this function to
- * wait for the current transaction to finish syncing data buffers, before
- * tryinf to free that buffer.
- *
- * Called with journal->j_state_lock held.
- */
-static void journal_wait_for_transaction_sync_data(journal_t *journal)
-{
-        transaction_t *transaction = NULL;
-        tid_t tid;
-
-        spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-        transaction = journal->j_committing_transaction;
-
-        if (!transaction) {
-                spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-                return;
-        }
-
-        tid = transaction->t_tid;
-        spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-        log_wait_commit(journal, tid);
-}
-
 /**
  * int journal_try_to_free_buffers() - try to free page buffers.
  * @journal: journal for operation
@@ -1786,25 +1757,6 @@ int journal_try_to_free_buffers(journal_t *journal,
 
         ret = try_to_free_buffers(page);
 
-        /*
-         * There are a number of places where journal_try_to_free_buffers()
-         * could race with journal_commit_transaction(), the later still
-         * holds the reference to the buffers to free while processing them.
-         * try_to_free_buffers() failed to free those buffers. Some of the
-         * caller of releasepage() request page buffers to be dropped, otherwise
-         * treat the fail-to-free as errors (such as generic_file_direct_IO())
-         *
-         * So, if the caller of try_to_release_page() wants the synchronous
-         * behaviour(i.e make sure buffers are dropped upon return),
-         * let's wait for the current transaction to finish flush of
-         * dirty data buffers, then try to free those buffers again,
-         * with the journal locked.
-         */
-        if (ret == 0 && (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) && (gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)) {
-                journal_wait_for_transaction_sync_data(journal);
-                ret = try_to_free_buffers(page);
-        }
-
 busy:
         return ret;
 }