nilfs2: get rid of private page allocator

Previously, nilfs was cloning pages for mmapped region to freeze their
data and ensure consistency of checksum during writeback cycles.  A
private page allocator was used for this page cloning.  But, we no
longer need to do that since clear_page_dirty_for_io function sets up
pte so that vm_ops->page_mkwrite function is called right before the
mmapped pages are modified and nilfs_page_mkwrite function can safely
wait for the pages to be written back to disk.

So, this stops making a copy of mmapped pages during writeback, and
eliminates the private page allocation and deallocation functions from
nilfs.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/file.c b/fs/nilfs2/file.c
index 397e7325863..d7eeca62feb 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/file.c
@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ static int nilfs_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	nilfs_transaction_commit(inode->i_sb);
 
  mapped:
-	SetPageChecked(page);
 	wait_on_page_writeback(page);
 	return VM_FAULT_LOCKED;
 }