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    hfsplus: get rid of write_super · 9e6c5829
    Artem Bityutskiy 提交于
    This patch makes hfsplus 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.
    
    Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.
    Signed-off-by: NArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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