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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2012-08-23 17:02:42 +0200
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2012-08-23 17:02:42 +0200
commit1e72fe1fca4490474984d6356bbf66e2daa89f73 (patch)
tree12d95820cbb2083a6c78cfe550a0f9b20b1246eb /fs/ext4/inode.c
parentMerge branch 'fixes' of git://github.com/hzhuang1/linux into fixes (diff)
parentARM: dts: imx51-babbage: fix esdhc cd/wp properties (diff)
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Merge branch 'imx/fixes-for-3.6' of git://git.linaro.org/people/shawnguo/linux-2.6 into fixes
* 'imx/fixes-for-3.6' of git://git.linaro.org/people/shawnguo/linux-2.6: ARM: dts: imx51-babbage: fix esdhc cd/wp properties ARM: imx6: spin the cpu until hardware takes it down ARM i.MX6q: Add virtual 1/3.5 dividers in the LDB clock path Also updates to Linux 3.6-rc2 Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/inode.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 6324f74e0342..dff171c3a123 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1970,7 +1970,7 @@ static void ext4_end_io_buffer_write(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate);
* This function can get called via...
* - ext4_da_writepages after taking page lock (have journal handle)
* - journal_submit_inode_data_buffers (no journal handle)
- * - shrink_page_list via pdflush (no journal handle)
+ * - shrink_page_list via the kswapd/direct reclaim (no journal handle)
* - grab_page_cache when doing write_begin (have journal handle)
*
* We don't do any block allocation in this function. If we have page with
@@ -4589,14 +4589,6 @@ static int ext4_expand_extra_isize(struct inode *inode,
* inode out, but prune_icache isn't a user-visible syncing function.
* Whenever the user wants stuff synced (sys_sync, sys_msync, sys_fsync)
* we start and wait on commits.
- *
- * Is this efficient/effective? Well, we're being nice to the system
- * by cleaning up our inodes proactively so they can be reaped
- * without I/O. But we are potentially leaving up to five seconds'
- * worth of inodes floating about which prune_icache wants us to
- * write out. One way to fix that would be to get prune_icache()
- * to do a write_super() to free up some memory. It has the desired
- * effect.
*/
int ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
{