shmem_file_write is redundant

With the old aops, writing to a tmpfs file had to use its own special method:
the generic method would pass in a fresh page to prepare_write when the right
page was there in swapcache - which was inefficient to handle, even once we'd
concocted the code to handle it.

With the new aops, the generic method uses shmem_write_end, which lets
shmem_getpage find the right page: so now abandon shmem_file_write in favour
of the generic method.  Yes, that does do several things that tmpfs hasn't
really needed (notably balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited, which ramfs also
calls); but more use of common code is preferable.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 106 deletions

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 43d071922b..5dfe79048f 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ static int shmem_getpage(struct inode *inode, unsigned long idx,
          * Normally, filepage is NULL on entry, and either found
          * uptodate immediately, or allocated and zeroed, or read
          * in under swappage, which is then assigned to filepage.
-         * But shmem_readpage and shmem_write_begin pass in a locked
+         * But shmem_readpage (required for splice) passes in a locked
          * filepage, which may be found not uptodate by other callers
          * too, and may need to be copied from the swappage read in.
          */
@@ -1476,110 +1476,6 @@ shmem_write_end(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
         return copied;
 }
 
-static ssize_t
-shmem_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-        struct inode    *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
-        loff_t          pos;
-        unsigned long   written;
-        ssize_t         err;
-
-        if ((ssize_t) count < 0)
-                return -EINVAL;
-
-        if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, buf, count))
-                return -EFAULT;
-
-        mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
-        pos = *ppos;
-        written = 0;
-
-        err = generic_write_checks(file, &pos, &count, 0);
-        if (err || !count)
-                goto out;
-
-        err = remove_suid(file->f_path.dentry);
-        if (err)
-                goto out;
-
-        inode->i_ctime = inode->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME;
-
-        do {
-                struct page *page = NULL;
-                unsigned long bytes, index, offset;
-                char *kaddr;
-                int left;
-
-                offset = (pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE -1)); /* Within page */
-                index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
-                bytes = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset;
-                if (bytes > count)
-                        bytes = count;
-
-                /*
-                 * We don't hold page lock across copy from user -
-                 * what would it guard against? - so no deadlock here.
-                 * But it still may be a good idea to prefault below.
-                 */
-
-                err = shmem_getpage(inode, index, &page, SGP_WRITE, NULL);
-                if (err)
-                        break;
-
-                unlock_page(page);
-                left = bytes;
-                if (PageHighMem(page)) {
-                        volatile unsigned char dummy;
-                        __get_user(dummy, buf);
-                        __get_user(dummy, buf + bytes - 1);
-
-                        kaddr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
-                        left = __copy_from_user_inatomic(kaddr + offset,
-                                                        buf, bytes);
-                        kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
-                }
-                if (left) {
-                        kaddr = kmap(page);
-                        left = __copy_from_user(kaddr + offset, buf, bytes);
-                        kunmap(page);
-                }
-
-                written += bytes;
-                count -= bytes;
-                pos += bytes;
-                buf += bytes;
-                if (pos > inode->i_size)
-                        i_size_write(inode, pos);
-
-                flush_dcache_page(page);
-                set_page_dirty(page);
-                mark_page_accessed(page);
-                page_cache_release(page);
-
-                if (left) {
-                        pos -= left;
-                        written -= left;
-                        err = -EFAULT;
-                        break;
-                }
-
-                /*
-                 * Our dirty pages are not counted in nr_dirty,
-                 * and we do not attempt to balance dirty pages.
-                 */
-
-                cond_resched();
-        } while (count);
-
-        *ppos = pos;
-        if (written)
-                err = written;
-out:
-        mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-        return err;
-}
-
 static void do_shmem_file_read(struct file *filp, loff_t *ppos, read_descriptor_t *desc, read_actor_t actor)
 {
         struct inode *inode = filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
@@ -2354,7 +2250,8 @@ static const struct file_operations shmem_file_operations = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS
         .llseek         = generic_file_llseek,
         .read           = shmem_file_read,
-        .write          = shmem_file_write,
+        .write          = do_sync_write,
+        .aio_write      = generic_file_aio_write,
         .fsync          = simple_sync_file,
         .splice_read    = generic_file_splice_read,
         .splice_write   = generic_file_splice_write,