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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lib.c
/*
* miscellaneous helper functions
*
* Copyright (c) Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
* Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.
*/
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/firewire.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include "lib.h"
#define ERROR_RETRY_DELAY_MS 5
/**
* snd_fw_transaction - send a request and wait for its completion
* @unit: the driver's unit on the target device
* @tcode: the transaction code
* @offset: the address in the target's address space
* @buffer: input/output data
* @length: length of @buffer
*
* Submits an asynchronous request to the target device, and waits for the
* response. The node ID and the current generation are derived from @unit.
* On a bus reset or an error, the transaction is retried a few times.
* Returns zero on success, or a negative error code.
*/
int snd_fw_transaction(struct fw_unit *unit, int tcode,
u64 offset, void *buffer, size_t length)
{
struct fw_device *device = fw_parent_device(unit);
int generation, rcode, tries = 0;
for (;;) {
generation = device->generation;
smp_rmb(); /* node_id vs. generation */
rcode = fw_run_transaction(device->card, tcode,
device->node_id, generation,
device->max_speed, offset,
buffer, length);
if (rcode == RCODE_COMPLETE)
return 0;
if (rcode_is_permanent_error(rcode) || ++tries >= 3) {
dev_err(&unit->device, "transaction failed: %s\n",
fw_rcode_string(rcode));
return -EIO;
}
msleep(ERROR_RETRY_DELAY_MS);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_fw_transaction);
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("FireWire audio helper functions");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
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