hfsplus: get rid of write_super

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

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/super.c b/fs/hfsplus/super.c
index f4f3d54..4733320 100644
--- a/fs/hfsplus/super.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/super.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ static int hfsplus_system_write_inode(struct inode *inode)
 
 	if (fork->total_size != cpu_to_be64(inode->i_size)) {
 		set_bit(HFSPLUS_SB_WRITEBACKUP, &sbi->flags);
-		inode->i_sb->s_dirt = 1;
+		hfsplus_mark_mdb_dirty(inode->i_sb);
 	}
 	hfsplus_inode_write_fork(inode, fork);
 	if (tree)
@@ -173,8 +173,6 @@ static int hfsplus_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
 
 	dprint(DBG_SUPER, "hfsplus_sync_fs\n");
 
-	sb->s_dirt = 0;
-
 	/*
 	 * Explicitly write out the special metadata inodes.
 	 *
@@ -226,12 +224,34 @@ out:
 	return error;
 }
 
-static void hfsplus_write_super(struct super_block *sb)
+static void delayed_sync_fs(struct work_struct *work)
 {
-	if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
-		hfsplus_sync_fs(sb, 1);
-	else
-		sb->s_dirt = 0;
+	struct hfsplus_sb_info *sbi;
+
+	sbi = container_of(work, struct hfsplus_sb_info, sync_work.work);
+
+	spin_lock(&sbi->work_lock);
+	sbi->work_queued = 0;
+	spin_unlock(&sbi->work_lock);
+
+	hfsplus_sync_fs(sbi->alloc_file->i_sb, 1);
+}
+
+void hfsplus_mark_mdb_dirty(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	struct hfsplus_sb_info *sbi = HFSPLUS_SB(sb);
+	unsigned long delay;
+
+	if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
+		return;
+
+	spin_lock(&sbi->work_lock);
+	if (!sbi->work_queued) {
+		delay = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10);
+		queue_delayed_work(system_long_wq, &sbi->sync_work, delay);
+		sbi->work_queued = 1;
+	}
+	spin_unlock(&sbi->work_lock);
 }
 
 static void hfsplus_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
@@ -240,6 +260,8 @@ static void hfsplus_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
 
 	dprint(DBG_SUPER, "hfsplus_put_super\n");
 
+	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&sbi->sync_work);
+
 	if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) && sbi->s_vhdr) {
 		struct hfsplus_vh *vhdr = sbi->s_vhdr;
 
@@ -325,7 +347,6 @@ static const struct super_operations hfsplus_sops = {
 	.write_inode	= hfsplus_write_inode,
 	.evict_inode	= hfsplus_evict_inode,
 	.put_super	= hfsplus_put_super,
-	.write_super	= hfsplus_write_super,
 	.sync_fs	= hfsplus_sync_fs,
 	.statfs		= hfsplus_statfs,
 	.remount_fs	= hfsplus_remount,
@@ -352,6 +373,8 @@ static int hfsplus_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	sb->s_fs_info = sbi;
 	mutex_init(&sbi->alloc_mutex);
 	mutex_init(&sbi->vh_mutex);
+	spin_lock_init(&sbi->work_lock);
+	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&sbi->sync_work, delayed_sync_fs);
 	hfsplus_fill_defaults(sbi);
 
 	err = -EINVAL;