kref: Remove kref_put_spinlock_irqsave()

Bart Van Assche · Nicholas Bellinger · commit 3a66d7dca186 · 2015-11-28T19:33:29.000-08:00
The last user is gone. Hence remove this function.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Joern Engel &lt;joern@logfs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
-#include <linux/spinlock.h>
 
 struct kref {
 	atomic_t refcount;
@@ -99,38 +98,6 @@ static inline int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release)(struct kref *kref)
 	return kref_sub(kref, 1, release);
 }
 
-/**
- * kref_put_spinlock_irqsave - decrement refcount for object.
- * @kref: object.
- * @release: pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the
- *	     last reference to the object is released.
- *	     This pointer is required, and it is not acceptable to pass kfree
- *	     in as this function.
- * @lock: lock to take in release case
- *
- * Behaves identical to kref_put with one exception.  If the reference count
- * drops to zero, the lock will be taken atomically wrt dropping the reference
- * count.  The release function has to call spin_unlock() without _irqrestore.
- */
-static inline int kref_put_spinlock_irqsave(struct kref *kref,
-		void (*release)(struct kref *kref),
-		spinlock_t *lock)
-{
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	WARN_ON(release == NULL);
-	if (atomic_add_unless(&kref->refcount, -1, 1))
-		return 0;
-	spin_lock_irqsave(lock, flags);
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount)) {
-		release(kref);
-		local_irq_restore(flags);
-		return 1;
-	}
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags);
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static inline int kref_put_mutex(struct kref *kref,
 				 void (*release)(struct kref *kref),
 				 struct mutex *lock)
