[PATCH][mainline-only] remove useless mnt_want_write call in xfs_write

[Christoph Hellwig]

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On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:44:50AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Any chance to get this into the git tree for the first 2.6.28 pull?
> 
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:25:51PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > When mnt_want_write was introduced a call to it was added around
> > xfs_ichgtime, but there is no need for this because a file can't be open
> > read/write on a r/o mount, and a mount can't degrade r/o while we still
> > have files open for writing.  As the mnt_want_write changes were never
> > merged into the CVS tree this patch is for mainline only.
> > 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> > 
> > --- linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c	2008-08-14 14:52:15.000000000 -0300
> > +++ linux-2.6-xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c	2008-08-14 14:54:53.000000000 -0300
> > @@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
> >  #include "xfs_vnodeops.h"
> >  
> >  #include <linux/capability.h>
> > -#include <linux/mount.h>
> >  #include <linux/writeback.h>
> >  
> >  
> > @@ -668,15 +667,8 @@ start:
> >  	if (new_size > xip->i_size)
> >  		xip->i_new_size = new_size;
> >  
> > -	/*
> > -	 * We're not supposed to change timestamps in readonly-mounted
> > -	 * filesystems.  Throw it away if anyone asks us.
> > -	 */
> > -	if (likely(!(ioflags & IO_INVIS) &&
> > -		   !mnt_want_write(file->f_path.mnt))) {
> > +	if (likely(!(ioflags & IO_INVIS)))
> >  		xfs_ichgtime(xip, XFS_ICHGTIME_MOD | XFS_ICHGTIME_CHG);
> > -		mnt_drop_write(file->f_path.mnt);
> > -	}
> >  
> >  	/*
> >  	 * If the offset is beyond the size of the file, we have a couple
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> 
> 
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