Thread (66 messages) 66 messages, 11 authors, 2010-09-18
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[PATCH 39/41] block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: 2010-09-03 10:29:54
Also in: dm-devel, linux-fsdevel, linux-ide, linux-scsi, lkml
Subsystem: filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers: Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

It's unused now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/fs.h |    3 ---
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 352c486..d6add69 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
  *			immediately after submission. The write equivalent
  *			of READ_SYNC.
  * WRITE_ODIRECT_PLUG	Special case write for O_DIRECT only.
- * WRITE_BARRIER	DEPRECATED. Always fails. Use FLUSH/FUA instead.
  * WRITE_FLUSH		Like WRITE_SYNC but with preceding cache flush.
  * WRITE_FUA		Like WRITE_SYNC but data is guaranteed to be on
  *			non-volatile media on completion.
@@ -157,8 +156,6 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
 #define WRITE_SYNC		(WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_UNPLUG)
 #define WRITE_ODIRECT_PLUG	(WRITE | REQ_SYNC)
 #define WRITE_META		(WRITE | REQ_META)
-#define WRITE_BARRIER		(WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_UNPLUG | \
-				 REQ_HARDBARRIER)
 #define WRITE_FLUSH		(WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_UNPLUG | \
 				 REQ_FLUSH)
 #define WRITE_FUA		(WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_UNPLUG | \
-- 
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