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authorOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>2012-09-05 15:35:48 -0700
committerOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>2012-09-05 15:35:48 -0700
commit1875962377574b4edb7b164001e3e341c25290d5 (patch)
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Merge branch 'soc-core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas into next/dt
* 'soc-core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas: ARM: mach-shmobile: Add compilation support for dtbs using 'make dtbs' + sync to 3.6-rc3
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 6324f74e..dff171c 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)
{
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