1 files changed, 0 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index efdc94434c30..9169b91ea2d2 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -304,28 +304,6 @@ extern struct dentry *__d_lookup(const struct dentry *, const struct qstr *);
 extern struct dentry *__d_lookup_rcu(const struct dentry *parent,
                                 const struct qstr *name, unsigned *seq);
 
-/**
- * __d_rcu_to_refcount - take a refcount on dentry if sequence check is ok
- * @dentry: dentry to take a ref on
- * @seq: seqcount to verify against
- * Returns: 0 on failure, else 1.
- *
- * __d_rcu_to_refcount operates on a dentry,seq pair that was returned
- * by __d_lookup_rcu, to get a reference on an rcu-walk dentry.
- */
-static inline int __d_rcu_to_refcount(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned seq)
-{
-        int ret = 0;
-
-        assert_spin_locked(&dentry->d_lock);
-        if (!read_seqcount_retry(&dentry->d_seq, seq)) {
-                ret = 1;
-                dentry->d_lockref.count++;
-        }
-
-        return ret;
-}
-
 static inline unsigned d_count(const struct dentry *dentry)
 {
         return dentry->d_lockref.count;