block: remove request ref_count

This reference count has been around since before git history, but the only
place where it's used is in blk_execute_rq, and ther it is entirely useless
as it is incremented before submitting the request and decremented in the
end_io handler before waking up the submitter thread.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

Author: Christoph Hellwig

block/blk-core.c

@@ -145,7 +145,6 @@ void blk_rq_init(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
 	rq->cmd = rq->__cmd;
 	rq->cmd_len = BLK_MAX_CDB;
 	rq->tag = -1;
-	rq->ref_count = 1;
 	rq->start_time = jiffies;
 	set_start_time_ns(rq);
 	rq->part = NULL;
@@ -1272,8 +1271,6 @@ void __blk_put_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req)
 {
 	if (unlikely(!q))
 		return;
-	if (unlikely(--req->ref_count))
-		return;
 
 	blk_pm_put_request(req);
 

block/blk-exec.c

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ static void blk_end_sync_rq(struct request *rq, int error)
 	struct completion *waiting = rq->end_io_data;
 
 	rq->end_io_data = NULL;
-	__blk_put_request(rq->q, rq);
 
 	/*
 	 * complete last, if this is a stack request the process (and thus
@@ -103,12 +102,6 @@ int blk_execute_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk,
 	int err = 0;
 	unsigned long hang_check;
 
-	/*
-	 * we need an extra reference to the request, so we can look at
-	 * it after io completion
-	 */
-	rq->ref_count++;
-
 	if (!rq->sense) {
 		memset(sense, 0, sizeof(sense));
 		rq->sense = sense;

include/linux/blkdev.h

@@ -160,8 +160,6 @@ struct request {
 
 	unsigned short ioprio;
 
-	int ref_count;
-
 	void *special;		/* opaque pointer available for LLD use */
 	char *buffer;		/* kaddr of the current segment if available */