Revision 020ac5b6bef15785f9dde9de89d2734ff97da733 authored by Artem Bityutskiy on 31 May 2012, 23:26:12 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 01 June 2012, 00:49:27 UTC
This is patchset makes fatfs stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method for writing out the FSINFO block. The final goal is to get rid of the 'sync_supers()' kernel thread. This kernel thread wakes up every 5 seconds (by default) and calls '->write_super()' for all mounted file-systems. And the bad thing is that this is done even if all the superblocks are clean. Moreover, some file-systems do not even need this end they do not register the '->write_super()' method at all (e.g., btrfs). So 'sync_supers()' most often just generates useless wake-ups and wastes power. I am trying to make all file-systems independent of '->write_super()' and plan to remove 'sync_supers()' and '->write_super' completely once there are no more users. The '->write_supers()' method is mostly used by baroque file-systems like hfs, udf, etc. Modern file-systems like btrfs and xfs do not use it. This justifies removing this stuff from VFS completely and make every FS self-manage own superblock. Tested with xfstests. This patch: Preparation for further changes. It introduces a special inode ('fsinfo_inode') in FAT file-system which we'll later use for managing the FSINFO block. Note, this there is already one special inode ('fat_inode') which is used for managing the FAT tables. Introduce new 'MSDOS_FSINFO_INO' constant for this special inode. It is safe to do because FAT file-system does not store inode numbers on the media but generates them run-time. I've also cleaned up the comment to existing 'MSDOS_ROOT_INO' constant, while on it. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kconfig
menuconfig SOUND
tristate "Sound card support"
depends on HAS_IOMEM
help
If you have a sound card in your computer, i.e. if it can say more
than an occasional beep, say Y. Be sure to have all the information
about your sound card and its configuration down (I/O port,
interrupt and DMA channel), because you will be asked for it.
You want to read the Sound-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. General information about
the modular sound system is contained in the files
<file:Documentation/sound/oss/Introduction>. The file
<file:Documentation/sound/oss/README.OSS> contains some slightly
outdated but still useful information as well. Newer sound
driver documentation is found in <file:Documentation/sound/alsa/*>.
If you have a PnP sound card and you want to configure it at boot
time using the ISA PnP tools (read
<http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/>), then you need to
compile the sound card support as a module and load that module
after the PnP configuration is finished. To do this, choose M here
and read <file:Documentation/sound/oss/README.modules>; the module
will be called soundcore.
if SOUND
config SOUND_OSS_CORE
bool
default n
config SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM
bool "Preclaim OSS device numbers"
depends on SOUND_OSS_CORE
default y
help
With this option enabled, the kernel will claim all OSS device
numbers if any OSS support (native or emulation) is enabled
whether the respective module is loaded or not and try to load the
appropriate module using sound-slot/service-* and char-major-*
module aliases when one of the device numbers is opened. With
this option disabled, kernel will only claim actually in-use
device numbers and opening a missing device will generate only the
standard char-major-* aliases.
The only visible difference is use of additional module aliases
and whether OSS sound devices appear multiple times in
/proc/devices. sound-slot/service-* module aliases are scheduled
to be removed (ie. PRECLAIM won't be available) and this option is
to make the transition easier. This option can be overridden
during boot using the kernel parameter soundcore.preclaim_oss.
Disabling this allows alternative OSS implementations.
Please read Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt for
details.
If unsure, say Y.
source "sound/oss/dmasound/Kconfig"
if !M68K && !UML
menuconfig SND
tristate "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture"
help
Say 'Y' or 'M' to enable ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture),
the new base sound system.
For more information, see <http://www.alsa-project.org/>
if SND
source "sound/core/Kconfig"
source "sound/drivers/Kconfig"
source "sound/isa/Kconfig"
source "sound/pci/Kconfig"
source "sound/ppc/Kconfig"
source "sound/aoa/Kconfig"
source "sound/arm/Kconfig"
source "sound/atmel/Kconfig"
source "sound/spi/Kconfig"
source "sound/mips/Kconfig"
source "sound/sh/Kconfig"
# the following will depend on the order of config.
# here assuming USB is defined before ALSA
source "sound/usb/Kconfig"
source "sound/firewire/Kconfig"
# the following will depend on the order of config.
# here assuming PCMCIA is defined before ALSA
source "sound/pcmcia/Kconfig"
source "sound/sparc/Kconfig"
source "sound/parisc/Kconfig"
source "sound/soc/Kconfig"
endif # SND
menuconfig SOUND_PRIME
tristate "Open Sound System (DEPRECATED)"
select SOUND_OSS_CORE
help
Say 'Y' or 'M' to enable Open Sound System drivers.
if SOUND_PRIME
source "sound/oss/Kconfig"
endif # SOUND_PRIME
endif # !M68K
endif # SOUND
# AC97_BUS is used from both sound and ucb1400
config AC97_BUS
tristate
help
This is used to avoid config and link hard dependencies between the
sound subsystem and other function drivers completely unrelated to
sound although they're sharing the AC97 bus. Concerned drivers
should "select" this.
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