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Artem Bityutskiy f0cd2dbb6c vfs: kill write_super and sync_supers 
Finally we can kill the 'sync_supers' kernel thread along with the
'->write_super()' superblock operation because all the users are gone.
Now every file-system is supposed to self-manage own superblock and
its dirty state.

The nice thing about killing this thread is that it improves power management.
Indeed, 'sync_supers' is a source of monotonic system wake-ups - it woke up
every 5 seconds no matter what - even if there were no dirty superblocks and
even if there were no file-systems using this service (e.g., btrfs and
journalled ext4 do not need it). So it was wasting power most of the time. And
because the thread was in the core of the kernel, all systems had to have it.
So I am quite happy to make it go away.

Interestingly, this thread is a left-over from the pdflush kernel thread which
was a self-forking kernel thread responsible for all the write-back in old
Linux kernels. It was turned into per-block device BDI threads, and
'sync_supers' was a left-over. Thus, R.I.P, pdflush as well.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
 		2012-08-04 01:24:44 +04:00
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Kconfig mm: factor out memory isolate functions 2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
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Makefile mm: factor out memory isolate functions 2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
backing-dev.c vfs: kill write_super and sync_supers 2012-08-04 01:24:44 +04:00
bootmem.c bootmem: make ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() really nopanic 2012-07-17 16:21:29 -07:00
bounce.c bounce: allow use of bounce pool via config option 2012-07-18 16:40:35 -04:00
cleancache.c
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compaction.c mm: have order > 0 compaction start off where it left 2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
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dmapool.c
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fadvise.c mm, fadvise: don't return -EINVAL when filesystem cannot implement fadvise() 2012-07-31 18:42:42 -07:00
failslab.c
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filemap.c fs: Protect write paths by sb_start_write - sb_end_write 2012-07-31 09:45:47 +04:00
filemap_xip.c fs: Protect write paths by sb_start_write - sb_end_write 2012-07-31 09:45:47 +04:00
fremap.c
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frontswap.c mm/frontswap: cleanup doc and comment error 2012-07-23 11:16:20 -04:00
highmem.c mm: add support for direct_IO to highmem pages 2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
huge_memory.c
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hugetlb.c mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables 2012-07-31 18:42:50 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c hugetlb/cgroup: remove exclude and wakeup rmdir calls from migrate 2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c memcg: rename config variables 2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
init-mm.c
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internal.h netvm: allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves 2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
kmemcheck.c
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kmemleak-test.c
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kmemleak.c
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ksm.c
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maccess.c
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madvise.c
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memblock.c mm/memblock.c:memblock_double_array(): cosmetic cleanups 2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: add mem_cgroup_from_css() helper 2012-07-31 18:42:49 -07:00
memory-failure.c memcg: rename config variables 2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
memory.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-08-01 10:26:23 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/hotplug: free zone->pageset when a zone becomes empty 2012-07-31 18:42:44 -07:00
mempolicy.c Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2012-07-30 11:32:24 -07:00
mempool.c
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migrate.c mm: memcg: fix compaction/migration failing due to memcg limits 2012-07-31 18:42:48 -07:00
mincore.c
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mlock.c
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mm_init.c
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mmap.c Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-07-31 19:25:39 -07:00
mmu_context.c
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mmu_notifier.c mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU 2012-07-31 18:42:49 -07:00
mmzone.c memcg: rename config variables 2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
mprotect.c
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mremap.c mm: account the total_vm in the vm_stat_account() 2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
msync.c
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nobootmem.c memblock: free allocated memblock_reserved_regions later 2012-07-11 16:04:50 -07:00
nommu.c
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oom_kill.c mm, memcg: move all oom handling to memcontrol.c 2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
page-writeback.c vfs: kill write_super and sync_supers 2012-08-04 01:24:44 +04:00
page_alloc.c mm: remove node_start_pfn checking in new WARN_ON for now 2012-08-02 10:37:03 -07:00
page_cgroup.c memcg: rename config variables 2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
page_io.c mm: add support for direct_IO to highmem pages 2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
page_isolation.c memory-hotplug: fix kswapd looping forever problem 2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
pagewalk.c
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percpu-km.c
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percpu-vm.c
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percpu.c
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pgtable-generic.c
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prio_tree.c
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process_vm_access.c
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quicklist.c
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readahead.c
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rmap.c
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shmem.c tmpfs: distribute interleave better across nodes 2012-07-31 18:42:50 -07:00
slab.c mm: micro-optimise slab to avoid a function call 2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
slab.h
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slab_common.c mm: Fix build warning in kmem_cache_create() 2012-07-30 13:15:40 +03:00
slob.c slob: Fix early boot kernel crash 2012-07-12 10:13:22 +03:00
slub.c mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks 2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
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sparse.c mm/sparse: remove index_init_lock 2012-07-31 18:42:49 -07:00
swap.c mm: add support for direct_IO to highmem pages 2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: add support for a filesystem to activate swap files and use direct_IO for writing swap pages 2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: swapfile: clean up unuse_pte race handling 2012-07-31 18:42:48 -07:00
truncate.c
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util.c
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vmalloc.c mm: make vb_alloc() more foolproof 2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
vmscan.c memcg: gix memory accounting scalability in shrink_page_list 2012-07-31 18:42:49 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: account for the number of times direct reclaimers get throttled 2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00