[PATCH 26/42] fs: Remove i_private_data

Jan Kara <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:54:20 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.aio.general,gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.linux.block,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4,gmane.linux.kernel.mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nobody is using it anymore.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
---
 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 0fc0cb23000e..d488459396f4 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
-- 
2.51.0


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