diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/run.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/run.c
index 8c91b3f93152deb2508dc32bd3c2378a0e45a648..c0238ea5b55ad0531a7721b0f26459d72b848b52 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/run.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/run.c
@@ -295,8 +295,7 @@ static inline int spu_process_events(struct spu_context *ctx)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-long spufs_run_spu(struct file *file, struct spu_context *ctx,
-		   u32 *npc, u32 *event)
+long spufs_run_spu(struct spu_context *ctx, u32 *npc, u32 *event)
 {
 	int ret;
 	u32 status;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.h b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.h
index 1438aa2c346eb0478847a6ed378406e2cf2a5e44..03e8315f6f9e3e1dd34f50479d637bbd7bca1d2b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.h
@@ -181,8 +181,7 @@ extern struct tree_descr spufs_dir_contents[];
 extern struct tree_descr spufs_dir_nosched_contents[];
 
 /* system call implementation */
-long spufs_run_spu(struct file *file,
-		   struct spu_context *ctx, u32 *npc, u32 *status);
+long spufs_run_spu(struct spu_context *ctx, u32 *npc, u32 *status);
 long spufs_create(struct nameidata *nd,
 			 unsigned int flags, mode_t mode);
 extern const struct file_operations spufs_context_fops;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/syscalls.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/syscalls.c
index 8e37bdf4dfdad4e7633540126a0227a35df7b2da..13a383c67caea2ce8a58c566d407206c86626043 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/syscalls.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/syscalls.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static long do_spu_run(struct file *filp,
 		goto out;
 
 	i = SPUFS_I(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode);
-	ret = spufs_run_spu(filp, i->i_ctx, &npc, &status);
+	ret = spufs_run_spu(i->i_ctx, &npc, &status);
 
 	if (put_user(npc, unpc))
 		ret = -EFAULT;