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-rw-r--r--mm/backing-dev.c52
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c1
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 53 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 6b4718e2ee34..b41823cc05e6 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -39,12 +39,6 @@ DEFINE_SPINLOCK(bdi_lock);
LIST_HEAD(bdi_list);
LIST_HEAD(bdi_pending_list);
-static struct task_struct *sync_supers_tsk;
-static struct timer_list sync_supers_timer;
-
-static int bdi_sync_supers(void *);
-static void sync_supers_timer_fn(unsigned long);
-
void bdi_lock_two(struct bdi_writeback *wb1, struct bdi_writeback *wb2)
{
if (wb1 < wb2) {
@@ -250,12 +244,6 @@ static int __init default_bdi_init(void)
{
int err;
- sync_supers_tsk = kthread_run(bdi_sync_supers, NULL, "sync_supers");
- BUG_ON(IS_ERR(sync_supers_tsk));
-
- setup_timer(&sync_supers_timer, sync_supers_timer_fn, 0);
- bdi_arm_supers_timer();
-
err = bdi_init(&default_backing_dev_info);
if (!err)
bdi_register(&default_backing_dev_info, NULL, "default");
@@ -270,46 +258,6 @@ int bdi_has_dirty_io(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
return wb_has_dirty_io(&bdi->wb);
}
-/*
- * kupdated() used to do this. We cannot do it from the bdi_forker_thread()
- * or we risk deadlocking on ->s_umount. The longer term solution would be
- * to implement sync_supers_bdi() or similar and simply do it from the
- * bdi writeback thread individually.
- */
-static int bdi_sync_supers(void *unused)
-{
- set_user_nice(current, 0);
-
- while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
- set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
- schedule();
-
- /*
- * Do this periodically, like kupdated() did before.
- */
- sync_supers();
- }
-
- return 0;
-}
-
-void bdi_arm_supers_timer(void)
-{
- unsigned long next;
-
- if (!dirty_writeback_interval)
- return;
-
- next = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10) + jiffies;
- mod_timer(&sync_supers_timer, round_jiffies_up(next));
-}
-
-static void sync_supers_timer_fn(unsigned long unused)
-{
- wake_up_process(sync_supers_tsk);
- bdi_arm_supers_timer();
-}
-
static void wakeup_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
{
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = (struct backing_dev_info *)data;
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index e5363f34e025..5ad5ce23c1e0 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1532,7 +1532,6 @@ int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
{
proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
- bdi_arm_supers_timer();
return 0;
}