Many callers won't need this and we can optimize them away.  In addition
the handling in the __-prefixed variants was inconsistant to start with.

Based on an earlier patch from Bart Van Assche.

[jejb: fix kerneldoc probelm picked up by Fengguang Wu]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>