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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 1192fde11638..4428f55f2131 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -462,8 +462,6 @@ in sys_read() and friends.
prototypes:
int (*initialize) (struct inode *, int);
int (*drop) (struct inode *);
- int (*alloc_inode) (const struct inode *, unsigned long);
- int (*free_inode) (const struct inode *, unsigned long);
int (*transfer) (struct inode *, struct iattr *);
int (*write_dquot) (struct dquot *);
int (*acquire_dquot) (struct dquot *);
@@ -479,8 +477,6 @@ What filesystem should expect from the generic quota functions:
FS recursion Held locks when called
initialize: yes maybe dqonoff_sem
drop: yes -
-alloc_inode: ->mark_dirty() -
-free_inode: ->mark_dirty() -
transfer: yes -
write_dquot: yes dqonoff_sem or dqptr_sem
acquire_dquot: yes dqonoff_sem or dqptr_sem
@@ -491,10 +487,6 @@ write_info: yes dqonoff_sem
FS recursion means calling ->quota_read() and ->quota_write() from superblock
operations.
-->alloc_inode(), ->free_inode() are called
-only directly by the filesystem and do not call any fs functions only
-the ->mark_dirty() operation.
-
More details about quota locking can be found in fs/dquot.c.
--------------------------- vm_operations_struct -----------------------------