This patch makes hfsplus stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.
The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.
Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Match coding style line length limitation where checkpatch.pl
reported over-80-character-line warnings.
Signed-off-by: Anton Salikhmetov <alexo@tuxera.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
HFSPLUS_SB doesn't return a pointer to the hfsplus-specific superblock
information like all other FOO_SB macros, but dereference the pointer in a way
that made it look like a direct struct derefence. This only works as long
as the HFSPLUS_SB macro is used directly and prevents us from keepig a local
hfsplus_sb_info pointer. Fix the calling convention and introduce a local
sbi variable in all functions that use it constantly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
Use a new per-sb alloc_mutex instead of abusing i_mutex of the alloc_file
to protect block allocations. This gets rid of lockdep nesting warnings
and prepares for extending the scope of alloc_mutex.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
Add read_mapping_page() which is used for callers that pass
mapping->a_ops->readpage as the filler for read_cache_page. This removes
some duplication from filesystem code.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.
Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
(finished the conversion)
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Artem Bityutskiy