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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/raid/bitmap.h b/include/linux/raid/bitmap.h
index f785cf26cba..cfe60cfc8f3 100644
--- a/include/linux/raid/bitmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/raid/bitmap.h
@@ -233,21 +233,12 @@ struct bitmap {
unsigned long daemon_sleep; /* how many seconds between updates? */
/*
- * bitmap write daemon - this daemon performs writes to the bitmap file
- * this thread is only needed because of a limitation in ext3 (jbd)
- * that does not allow a task to have two journal transactions ongoing
- * simultaneously (even if the transactions are for two different
- * filesystems) -- in the case of bitmap, that would be the filesystem
- * that the bitmap file resides on and the filesystem that is mounted
- * on the md device -- see current->journal_info in jbd/transaction.c
+ * bitmap_writeback_daemon waits for file-pages that have been written,
+ * as there is no way to get a call-back when a page write completes.
*/
mdk_thread_t *writeback_daemon;
spinlock_t write_lock;
- struct semaphore write_ready;
- struct semaphore write_done;
- unsigned long writes_pending;
wait_queue_head_t write_wait;
- struct list_head write_pages;
struct list_head complete_pages;
mempool_t *write_pool;
};