Kent Overstreet <[email protected]> writes:

> From: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
>
> This removes the only in-tree user of aio retry.  This will let us remove
> the retry code from the aio core.
>
> Removing retry is relatively easy as the USB gadget wasn't using it to
> retry IOs at all.  It always fully submitted the IO in the context of the
> initial io_submit() call.  It only used the AIO retry facility to get the
> submitter's mm context for copying the result of a read back to user
> space.  This is easy to implement with use_mm() and a work struct, much
> like kvm does with async_pf_execute() for get_user_pages().
>
> Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
> Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
> Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
> Cc: Asai Thambi S P <[email protected]>
> Cc: Selvan Mani <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sam Bradshaw <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
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