tree 3eb6584eac00b8a6cf859d003ad0c1940e7e299c
parent a215fef7edfdcd8948037ceb3060b9ae7ebcef8b
author Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> 1338998217 +0300
committer Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 1342269165 +0400

affs: get rid of affs_sync_super

This patch makes affs 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.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>