Merge tag 'v3.6-rc3' into staging/for_v3.7

Linux 3.6-rc3

* tag 'v3.6-rc3': (764 commits)
  Linux 3.6-rc3
  task_work: add a scheduling point in task_work_run()
  fs: fix fs/namei.c kernel-doc warnings
  eventpoll: use-after-possible-free in epoll_create1()
  vfio: grab vfio_device reference *before* exposing the sucker via fd_install()
  vfio: get rid of vfio_device_put()/vfio_group_get_device* races
  vfio: get rid of open-coding kref_put_mutex
  introduce kref_put_mutex()
  vfio: don't dereference after kfree...
  fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer (v1.1)
  mm: compaction: Abort async compaction if locks are contended or taking too long
  mm: have order > 0 compaction start near a pageblock with free pages
  rapidio/tsi721: fix unused variable compiler warning
  rapidio/tsi721: fix inbound doorbell interrupt handling
  drivers/rtc/rtc-rs5c348.c: fix hour decoding in 12-hour mode
  mm: correct page->pfmemalloc to fix deactivate_slab regression
  drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c: initialize dynamic sysfs attributes
  mm/compaction.c: fix deferring compaction mistake
  drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c: SGI XPC fails to load when cpu 0 is out of IRQ resources
  string: do not export memweight() to userspace
  ...

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 52 deletions

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 6b4718e2ee34..b41823cc05e6 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -39,12 +39,6 @@ DEFINE_SPINLOCK(bdi_lock);
 LIST_HEAD(bdi_list);
 LIST_HEAD(bdi_pending_list);
 
-static struct task_struct *sync_supers_tsk;
-static struct timer_list sync_supers_timer;
-
-static int bdi_sync_supers(void *);
-static void sync_supers_timer_fn(unsigned long);
-
 void bdi_lock_two(struct bdi_writeback *wb1, struct bdi_writeback *wb2)
 {
 	if (wb1 < wb2) {
@@ -250,12 +244,6 @@ static int __init default_bdi_init(void)
 {
 	int err;
 
-	sync_supers_tsk = kthread_run(bdi_sync_supers, NULL, "sync_supers");
-	BUG_ON(IS_ERR(sync_supers_tsk));
-
-	setup_timer(&sync_supers_timer, sync_supers_timer_fn, 0);
-	bdi_arm_supers_timer();
-
 	err = bdi_init(&default_backing_dev_info);
 	if (!err)
 		bdi_register(&default_backing_dev_info, NULL, "default");
@@ -270,46 +258,6 @@ int bdi_has_dirty_io(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 	return wb_has_dirty_io(&bdi->wb);
 }
 
-/*
- * kupdated() used to do this. We cannot do it from the bdi_forker_thread()
- * or we risk deadlocking on ->s_umount. The longer term solution would be
- * to implement sync_supers_bdi() or similar and simply do it from the
- * bdi writeback thread individually.
- */
-static int bdi_sync_supers(void *unused)
-{
-	set_user_nice(current, 0);
-
-	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
-		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-		schedule();
-
-		/*
-		 * Do this periodically, like kupdated() did before.
-		 */
-		sync_supers();
-	}
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
-void bdi_arm_supers_timer(void)
-{
-	unsigned long next;
-
-	if (!dirty_writeback_interval)
-		return;
-
-	next = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10) + jiffies;
-	mod_timer(&sync_supers_timer, round_jiffies_up(next));
-}
-
-static void sync_supers_timer_fn(unsigned long unused)
-{
-	wake_up_process(sync_supers_tsk);
-	bdi_arm_supers_timer();
-}
-
 static void wakeup_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
 {
 	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = (struct backing_dev_info *)data;