Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull VFS fixes and cleanups from Al Viro.

Most of this is the series to remove sync_supers() and the
->write_supers VFS callback from Artem Bityutskiy.  One commit to do the
actual removal work, a whole series of commits to fix up stale comments
etc all over the tree.

There's also a regression fix for an incorrect use of mnt_drop_write()
in do_dentry_open().

* 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  missed mnt_drop_write() in do_dentry_open()
  UBIFS: nuke pdflush from comments
  gfs2: nuke pdflush from comments
  drbd: nuke pdflush from comments
  nilfs2: nuke write_super from comments
  hfs: nuke write_super from comments
  vfs: nuke pdflush from comments
  jbd/jbd2: nuke write_super from comments
  btrfs: nuke pdflush from comments
  btrfs: nuke write_super from comments
  ext4: nuke pdflush from comments
  ext4: nuke write_super from comments
  ext3: nuke write_super from comments
  Documentation: fix the VM knobs descritpion WRT pdflush
  Documentation: get rid of write_super
  vfs: kill write_super and sync_supers

4 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 83baec24946..6e8f416773d 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -324,7 +324,8 @@ static noinline int add_async_extent(struct async_cow *cow,
  * If this code finds it can't get good compression, it puts an
  * entry onto the work queue to write the uncompressed bytes.  This
  * makes sure that both compressed inodes and uncompressed inodes
- * are written in the same order that pdflush sent them down.
+ * are written in the same order that the flusher thread sent them
+ * down.
  */
 static noinline int compress_file_range(struct inode *inode,
 					struct page *locked_page,
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c b/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c
index 643335a4fe3..051c7fe551d 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ void btrfs_start_ordered_extent(struct inode *inode,
 	/*
 	 * pages in the range can be dirty, clean or writeback.  We
 	 * start IO on any dirty ones so the wait doesn't stall waiting
-	 * for pdflush to find them
+	 * for the flusher thread to find them
 	 */
 	if (!test_bit(BTRFS_ORDERED_DIRECT, &entry->flags))
 		filemap_fdatawrite_range(inode->i_mapping, start, end);
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index 8c6e61d6eed..f2eb24c477a 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -100,10 +100,6 @@ static void __save_error_info(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
 	fs_info->fs_state = BTRFS_SUPER_FLAG_ERROR;
 }
 
-/* NOTE:
- *	We move write_super stuff at umount in order to avoid deadlock
- *	for umount hold all lock.
- */
 static void save_error_info(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
 {
 	__save_error_info(fs_info);
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index b8708f994e6..e86ae04abe6 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -1744,10 +1744,6 @@ int btrfs_init_new_device(struct btrfs_root *root, char *device_path)
 
 	device->fs_devices = root->fs_info->fs_devices;
 
-	/*
-	 * we don't want write_supers to jump in here with our device
-	 * half setup
-	 */
 	mutex_lock(&root->fs_info->fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
 	list_add_rcu(&device->dev_list, &root->fs_info->fs_devices->devices);
 	list_add(&device->dev_alloc_list,