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authorArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2010-07-25 15:29:11 +0400
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2010-08-07 20:53:16 +0400
commit6f904ff0e39ea88f81eb77e8dfb4e1238492f0a8 (patch)
tree8a22ff5ffe31e221554915ac9135da15d3adad8d /include/linux/backing-dev.h
parent4aeefdc69f7b6f3f287e6fd8d4b213953b9e92d8 (diff)
downloadlinux-6f904ff0e39ea88f81eb77e8dfb4e1238492f0a8.tar.xz
writeback: harmonize writeback threads naming
The write-back code mixes words "thread" and "task" for the same things. This is not a big deal, but still an inconsistency. hch: a convention I tend to use and I've seen in various places is to always use _task for the storage of the task_struct pointer, and thread everywhere else. This especially helps with having foo_thread for the actual thread and foo_task for a global variable keeping the task_struct pointer This patch renames: * 'bdi_add_default_flusher_task()' -> 'bdi_add_default_flusher_thread()' * 'bdi_forker_task()' -> 'bdi_forker_thread()' because bdi threads are 'bdi_writeback_thread()', so these names are more consistent. This patch also amends commentaries and makes them refer the forker and bdi threads as "thread", not "task". Also, while on it, make 'bdi_add_default_flusher_thread()' declaration use 'static void' instead of 'void static' and make checkpatch.pl happy. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/backing-dev.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/backing-dev.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index e536f3a74e60..f0936f5f85dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ struct bdi_writeback {
unsigned long last_old_flush; /* last old data flush */
- struct task_struct *task; /* writeback task */
+ struct task_struct *task; /* writeback thread */
struct list_head b_dirty; /* dirty inodes */
struct list_head b_io; /* parked for writeback */
struct list_head b_more_io; /* parked for more writeback */