Re: [PATCH 0/5] xfs: remove leftover dead declarations in headers

[Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2026 at 02:06:43PM +0800, Zizhi Wo wrote:
> While reading the XFS log code I noticed that the implementation of
> xlog_assign_tail_lsn() had already been removed, but its declaration was
> left behind in the header. Such orphaned declarations (implementation gone,
> no callers) can simply be dropped.
> 
> Suspecting more of these existed, I scanned the XFS headers (using GLM-5.2
> to help, then verified each by hand) and this series removes the leftover
> declarations I could confirm. Some of these have been stale for a long time
> -- the oldest dates back to 2006.
> 
> Note that scrub still has a fair number of functions that do have
> implementations but no callers (e.g. xchk_process_rt_error). I'm not sure
> removing those is appropriate, since they may be intended for future use,
> so they are not touched here.
> 
> Cleanup only, no functional change.
> 
> Zizhi Wo (5):
>   xfs: remove unused xlog_assign_tail_lsn declarations
>   xfs: remove unused xfs_iext_realloc declaration
>   xfs: remove unused xfs_buf_iodone declaration
>   xfs: remove unused kmem_to_page helper
>   xfs: remove never-implemented scrub declarations

Honestly this all could have been a single patch, I don't believe the
'when the last user was gone' matters at least for me as I could find if
through a quick `git log` scan. Darrick was fine with it so I won't
enforce it to be a single cleanup patch.

At least get rid of the "Assisted-By: <model>" thing and send a new
version as we don't accept models discrimination anymore.

Carlos

> 
>  fs/xfs/scrub/common.h   |  1 -
>  fs/xfs/scrub/scrub.h    |  1 -
>  fs/xfs/scrub/tempfile.h |  4 ----
>  fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.h   |  1 -
>  fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h      |  1 -
>  fs/xfs/xfs_log.h        |  2 --
>  fs/xfs/xfs_platform.h   | 11 -----------
>  7 files changed, 21 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.52.0
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