[PATCH] fs/ceph: use release_pages() directly

From: john . hubbard
Date: Thu Aug 08 2019 - 23:57:04 EST


From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>

release_pages() has been available to modules since Oct, 2010,
when commit 0be8557bcd34 ("fuse: use release_pages()") added
EXPORT_SYMBOL(release_pages). However, this ceph code was still
using a workaround.

Remove the workaround, and call release_pages() directly.

Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Hi,

I noticed this while I trying to understand mlock.c's use of
pagevec_release(). So I was looking around for examples, and stumbled
across this, which seems worth cleaning up.

thanks,
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

fs/ceph/addr.c | 19 +------------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ceph/addr.c b/fs/ceph/addr.c
index e078cc55b989..22ed45d143be 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/addr.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/addr.c
@@ -679,23 +679,6 @@ static int ceph_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
return err;
}

-/*
- * lame release_pages helper. release_pages() isn't exported to
- * modules.
- */
-static void ceph_release_pages(struct page **pages, int num)
-{
- struct pagevec pvec;
- int i;
-
- pagevec_init(&pvec);
- for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
- if (pagevec_add(&pvec, pages[i]) == 0)
- pagevec_release(&pvec);
- }
- pagevec_release(&pvec);
-}
-
/*
* async writeback completion handler.
*
@@ -769,7 +752,7 @@ static void writepages_finish(struct ceph_osd_request *req)
dout("writepages_finish %p wrote %llu bytes cleaned %d pages\n",
inode, osd_data->length, rc >= 0 ? num_pages : 0);

- ceph_release_pages(osd_data->pages, num_pages);
+ release_pages(osd_data->pages, num_pages);
}

ceph_put_wrbuffer_cap_refs(ci, total_pages, snapc);
--
2.22.0