block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely

As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios,
it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its
own ->merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> (for the 'md' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
[dpark: also remove ->merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as
 dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 35 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
index 923c857b395b..211592682169 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
@@ -1512,41 +1512,6 @@ void drbd_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
 	__drbd_make_request(device, bio, start_jif);
 }
 
-/* This is called by bio_add_page().
- *
- * q->max_hw_sectors and other global limits are already enforced there.
- *
- * We need to call down to our lower level device,
- * in case it has special restrictions.
- *
- * We also may need to enforce configured max-bio-bvecs limits.
- *
- * As long as the BIO is empty we have to allow at least one bvec,
- * regardless of size and offset, so no need to ask lower levels.
- */
-int drbd_merge_bvec(struct request_queue *q, struct bvec_merge_data *bvm, struct bio_vec *bvec)
-{
-	struct drbd_device *device = (struct drbd_device *) q->queuedata;
-	unsigned int bio_size = bvm->bi_size;
-	int limit = DRBD_MAX_BIO_SIZE;
-	int backing_limit;
-
-	if (bio_size && get_ldev(device)) {
-		unsigned int max_hw_sectors = queue_max_hw_sectors(q);
-		struct request_queue * const b =
-			device->ldev->backing_bdev->bd_disk->queue;
-		if (b->merge_bvec_fn) {
-			bvm->bi_bdev = device->ldev->backing_bdev;
-			backing_limit = b->merge_bvec_fn(b, bvm, bvec);
-			limit = min(limit, backing_limit);
-		}
-		put_ldev(device);
-		if ((limit >> 9) > max_hw_sectors)
-			limit = max_hw_sectors << 9;
-	}
-	return limit;
-}
-
 void request_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
 {
 	struct drbd_device *device = (struct drbd_device *) data;