3 files changed, 17 insertions, 38 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index 98a97129fc5f..35f5f9a27722 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -666,59 +666,40 @@ int ext4_should_retry_alloc(struct super_block *sb, int *retries)
         return jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal);
 }
 
-#define EXT4_META_BLOCK 0x1
-
-static ext4_fsblk_t do_blk_alloc(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
-                                ext4_lblk_t iblock, ext4_fsblk_t goal,
-                                unsigned long *count, int *errp, int flags)
-{
-        struct ext4_allocation_request ar;
-        ext4_fsblk_t ret;
-
-        memset(&ar, 0, sizeof(ar));
-        /* Fill with neighbour allocated blocks */
-
-        ar.inode = inode;
-        ar.goal = goal;
-        ar.len = *count;
-        ar.logical = iblock;
-
-        if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !(flags & EXT4_META_BLOCK))
-                /* enable in-core preallocation for data block allocation */
-                ar.flags = EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA;
-        else
-                /* disable in-core preallocation for non-regular files */
-                ar.flags = 0;
-
-        ret = ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle, &ar, errp);
-        *count = ar.len;
-        return ret;
-}
-
 /*
  * ext4_new_meta_blocks() -- allocate block for meta data (indexing) blocks
  *
  * @handle:             handle to this transaction
  * @inode:              file inode
  * @goal:               given target block(filesystem wide)
- * @count:              total number of blocks need
+ * @count:              pointer to total number of blocks needed
  * @errp:               error code
  *
- * Return 1st allocated block numberon success, *count stores total account
+ * Return 1st allocated block number on success, *count stores total account
  * error stores in errp pointer
  */
 ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
                 ext4_fsblk_t goal, unsigned long *count, int *errp)
 {
+        struct ext4_allocation_request ar;
         ext4_fsblk_t ret;
-        ret = do_blk_alloc(handle, inode, 0, goal,
-                                count, errp, EXT4_META_BLOCK);
+
+        memset(&ar, 0, sizeof(ar));
+        /* Fill with neighbour allocated blocks */
+        ar.inode = inode;
+        ar.goal = goal;
+        ar.len = count ? *count : 1;
+
+        ret = ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle, &ar, errp);
+        if (count)
+                *count = ar.len;
+
         /*
          * Account for the allocated meta blocks
          */
         if (!(*errp) && EXT4_I(inode)->i_delalloc_reserved_flag) {
                 spin_lock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock);
-                EXT4_I(inode)->i_allocated_meta_blocks += *count;
+                EXT4_I(inode)->i_allocated_meta_blocks += ar.len;
                 spin_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock);
         }
         return ret;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index e5b169b44b4c..59401d057c69 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -189,10 +189,9 @@ ext4_ext_new_meta_block(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
                         struct ext4_extent *ex, int *err)
 {
         ext4_fsblk_t goal, newblock;
-        unsigned long count = 1;
 
         goal = ext4_ext_find_goal(inode, path, le32_to_cpu(ex->ee_block));
-        newblock = ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle, inode, goal, &count, err);
+        newblock = ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle, inode, goal, NULL, err);
         return newblock;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index f896e2c452f0..9b4a368c5728 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -689,7 +689,6 @@ ext4_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
                      struct ext4_xattr_info *i,
                      struct ext4_xattr_block_find *bs)
 {
-        unsigned long count = 1;
         struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
         struct buffer_head *new_bh = NULL;
         struct ext4_xattr_search *s = &bs->s;
@@ -812,7 +811,7 @@ inserted:
                         ext4_fsblk_t goal = ext4_group_first_block_no(sb,
                                                 EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_group);
                         ext4_fsblk_t block = ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle, inode,
-                                                  goal, &count, &error);
+                                                  goal, NULL, &error);
                         if (error)
                                 goto cleanup;
                         ea_idebug(inode, "creating block %d", block);