[PATCH] Remove __invalidate_mapping_pages variant

[Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>]

Remove __invalidate_mapping_pages atomic variant now that its sole caller can
sleep (fixed in eccb95cee4f0d56faa46ef22fb94dd4a3578d3eb).

This fixes softlockups that can occur while in the drop_caches path.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
---

 fs/drop_caches.c   |    2 +-
 include/linux/fs.h |    3 ---
 mm/truncate.c      |   39 ++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c
index b6a719a..a2edb79 100644
--- a/fs/drop_caches.c
+++ b/fs/drop_caches.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb)
 			continue;
 		__iget(inode);
 		spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
-		__invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1, true);
+		invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1);
 		iput(toput_inode);
 		toput_inode = inode;
 		spin_lock(&inode_lock);
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 3b534e5..131dc03 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2043,9 +2043,6 @@ extern int __invalidate_device(struct block_device *);
 extern int invalidate_partition(struct gendisk *, int);
 #endif
 extern int invalidate_inodes(struct super_block *);
-unsigned long __invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
-					pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end,
-					bool be_atomic);
 unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 					pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end);
 
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 12e1579..ccc3ecf 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -267,8 +267,21 @@ void truncate_inode_pages(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t lstart)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(truncate_inode_pages);
 
-unsigned long __invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
-				pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end, bool be_atomic)
+/**
+ * invalidate_mapping_pages - Invalidate all the unlocked pages of one inode
+ * @mapping: the address_space which holds the pages to invalidate
+ * @start: the offset 'from' which to invalidate
+ * @end: the offset 'to' which to invalidate (inclusive)
+ *
+ * This function only removes the unlocked pages, if you want to
+ * remove all the pages of one inode, you must call truncate_inode_pages.
+ *
+ * invalidate_mapping_pages() will not block on IO activity. It will not
+ * invalidate pages which are dirty, locked, under writeback or mapped into
+ * pagetables.
+ */
+unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
+				       pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
 {
 	struct pagevec pvec;
 	pgoff_t next = start;
@@ -309,30 +322,10 @@ unlock:
 				break;
 		}
 		pagevec_release(&pvec);
-		if (likely(!be_atomic))
-			cond_resched();
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 	return ret;
 }
-
-/**
- * invalidate_mapping_pages - Invalidate all the unlocked pages of one inode
- * @mapping: the address_space which holds the pages to invalidate
- * @start: the offset 'from' which to invalidate
- * @end: the offset 'to' which to invalidate (inclusive)
- *
- * This function only removes the unlocked pages, if you want to
- * remove all the pages of one inode, you must call truncate_inode_pages.
- *
- * invalidate_mapping_pages() will not block on IO activity. It will not
- * invalidate pages which are dirty, locked, under writeback or mapped into
- * pagetables.
- */
-unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
-				pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
-{
-	return __invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, start, end, false);
-}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(invalidate_mapping_pages);
 
 /*

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