[PATCH 24/41] fs: Remove i_private_data

Jan Kara
2026-03-20T13:43:06Z

Nobody is using it anymore.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
fs/inode.c | 1 -
include/linux/fs.h | 2 --
2 files changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 4f98a5f04bbd..d5774e627a9c 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -283,7 +283,6 @@ int inode_init_always_gfp(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *inode, gfp_t gfp
atomic_set(&mapping->nr_thps, 0);
#endif
mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE);
- mapping->i_private_data = NULL;
mapping->writeback_index = 0;
init_rwsem(&mapping->invalidate_lock);
lockdep_set_class_and_name(&mapping->invalidate_lock,
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 8b3dd145b25e..10b96eb5391d 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -465,7 +465,6 @@ extern const struct address_space_operations empty_aops;
* @wb_err: The most recent error which has occurred.
* @i_private_lock: For use by the owner of the address_space.
* @i_private_list: For use by the owner of the address_space.
- * @i_private_data: For use by the owner of the address_space.
*/
struct address_space {
struct inode *host;
@@ -486,7 +485,6 @@ struct address_space {
spinlock_t i_private_lock;
struct list_head i_private_list;
struct rw_semaphore i_mmap_rwsem;
- void * i_private_data;
} __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(long)))) __randomize_layout;
/*
* On most architectures that alignment is already the case; but
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