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-rw-r--r--fs/bio.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/inode.c3
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/ioctl.c5
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/super.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/volumes.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/exofs/inode.c27
-rw-r--r--fs/exofs/ore.c14
-rw-r--r--fs/exofs/super.c11
-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/inode.c8
-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/super.c11
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c10
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/super.c11
-rw-r--r--fs/fuse/control.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/gfs2/meta_io.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/hfs/mdb.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/jbd/journal.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/jbd2/journal.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c6
-rw-r--r--fs/nilfs2/super.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h2
-rw-r--r--fs/open.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/super.c40
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/file.c10
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/super.c2
25 files changed, 49 insertions, 147 deletions
diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index 73922abba832..5eaa70c9d96e 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_copy_kern);
* Note that this code is very hard to test under normal circumstances because
* direct-io pins the pages with get_user_pages(). This makes
* is_page_cache_freeable return false, and the VM will not clean the pages.
- * But other code (eg, pdflush) could clean the pages if they are mapped
+ * But other code (eg, flusher threads) could clean the pages if they are mapped
* pagecache.
*
* Simply disabling the call to bio_set_pages_dirty() is a good way to test the
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 83baec24946d..6e8f416773d4 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/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index bc2f6ffff3cf..7bb755677a22 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -664,10 +664,6 @@ static noinline int btrfs_mksubvol(struct path *parent,
struct dentry *dentry;
int error;
- error = mnt_want_write(parent->mnt);
- if (error)
- return error;
-
mutex_lock_nested(&dir->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent->dentry, namelen);
@@ -703,7 +699,6 @@ out_dput:
dput(dentry);
out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex);
- mnt_drop_write(parent->mnt);
return error;
}
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c b/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c
index 643335a4fe3c..051c7fe551dd 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 8c6e61d6eed5..f2eb24c477a3 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 b8708f994e67..e86ae04abe6a 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,
diff --git a/fs/exofs/inode.c b/fs/exofs/inode.c
index 5badb0c039de..1562c27a2fab 100644
--- a/fs/exofs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/exofs/inode.c
@@ -37,15 +37,12 @@
#define EXOFS_DBGMSG2(M...) do {} while (0)
-enum {MAX_PAGES_KMALLOC = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page *), };
-
unsigned exofs_max_io_pages(struct ore_layout *layout,
unsigned expected_pages)
{
- unsigned pages = min_t(unsigned, expected_pages, MAX_PAGES_KMALLOC);
+ unsigned pages = min_t(unsigned, expected_pages,
+ layout->max_io_length / PAGE_SIZE);
- /* TODO: easily support bio chaining */
- pages = min_t(unsigned, pages, layout->max_io_length / PAGE_SIZE);
return pages;
}
@@ -101,7 +98,8 @@ static void _pcol_reset(struct page_collect *pcol)
* it might not end here. don't be left with nothing
*/
if (!pcol->expected_pages)
- pcol->expected_pages = MAX_PAGES_KMALLOC;
+ pcol->expected_pages =
+ exofs_max_io_pages(&pcol->sbi->layout, ~0);
}
static int pcol_try_alloc(struct page_collect *pcol)
@@ -389,6 +387,8 @@ static int readpage_strip(void *data, struct page *page)
size_t len;
int ret;
+ BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+
/* FIXME: Just for debugging, will be removed */
if (PageUptodate(page))
EXOFS_ERR("PageUptodate(0x%lx, 0x%lx)\n", pcol->inode->i_ino,
@@ -572,8 +572,16 @@ static struct page *__r4w_get_page(void *priv, u64 offset, bool *uptodate)
if (!pcol->that_locked_page ||
(pcol->that_locked_page->index != index)) {
- struct page *page = find_get_page(pcol->inode->i_mapping, index);
+ struct page *page;
+ loff_t i_size = i_size_read(pcol->inode);
+
+ if (offset >= i_size) {
+ *uptodate = true;
+ EXOFS_DBGMSG("offset >= i_size index=0x%lx\n", index);
+ return ZERO_PAGE(0);
+ }
+ page = find_get_page(pcol->inode->i_mapping, index);
if (!page) {
page = find_or_create_page(pcol->inode->i_mapping,
index, GFP_NOFS);
@@ -602,12 +610,13 @@ static void __r4w_put_page(void *priv, struct page *page)
{
struct page_collect *pcol = priv;
- if (pcol->that_locked_page != page) {
+ if ((pcol->that_locked_page != page) && (ZERO_PAGE(0) != page)) {
EXOFS_DBGMSG("index=0x%lx\n", page->index);
page_cache_release(page);
return;
}
- EXOFS_DBGMSG("that_locked_page index=0x%lx\n", page->index);
+ EXOFS_DBGMSG("that_locked_page index=0x%lx\n",
+ ZERO_PAGE(0) == page ? -1 : page->index);
}
static const struct _ore_r4w_op _r4w_op = {
diff --git a/fs/exofs/ore.c b/fs/exofs/ore.c
index 24a49d47e935..1585db1aa365 100644
--- a/fs/exofs/ore.c
+++ b/fs/exofs/ore.c
@@ -837,11 +837,11 @@ static int _write_mirror(struct ore_io_state *ios, int cur_comp)
bio->bi_rw |= REQ_WRITE;
}
- osd_req_write(or, _ios_obj(ios, dev), per_dev->offset,
- bio, per_dev->length);
+ osd_req_write(or, _ios_obj(ios, cur_comp),
+ per_dev->offset, bio, per_dev->length);
ORE_DBGMSG("write(0x%llx) offset=0x%llx "
"length=0x%llx dev=%d\n",
- _LLU(_ios_obj(ios, dev)->id),
+ _LLU(_ios_obj(ios, cur_comp)->id),
_LLU(per_dev->offset),
_LLU(per_dev->length), dev);
} else if (ios->kern_buff) {
@@ -853,20 +853,20 @@ static int _write_mirror(struct ore_io_state *ios, int cur_comp)
(ios->si.unit_off + ios->length >
ios->layout->stripe_unit));
- ret = osd_req_write_kern(or, _ios_obj(ios, per_dev->dev),
+ ret = osd_req_write_kern(or, _ios_obj(ios, cur_comp),
per_dev->offset,
ios->kern_buff, ios->length);
if (unlikely(ret))
goto out;
ORE_DBGMSG2("write_kern(0x%llx) offset=0x%llx "
"length=0x%llx dev=%d\n",
- _LLU(_ios_obj(ios, dev)->id),
+ _LLU(_ios_obj(ios, cur_comp)->id),
_LLU(per_dev->offset),
_LLU(ios->length), per_dev->dev);
} else {
- osd_req_set_attributes(or, _ios_obj(ios, dev));
+ osd_req_set_attributes(or, _ios_obj(ios, cur_comp));
ORE_DBGMSG2("obj(0x%llx) set_attributes=%d dev=%d\n",
- _LLU(_ios_obj(ios, dev)->id),
+ _LLU(_ios_obj(ios, cur_comp)->id),
ios->out_attr_len, dev);
}
diff --git a/fs/exofs/super.c b/fs/exofs/super.c
index 433783624d10..dde41a75c7c8 100644
--- a/fs/exofs/super.c
+++ b/fs/exofs/super.c
@@ -400,8 +400,6 @@ static int exofs_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
ret = ore_write(ios);
if (unlikely(ret))
EXOFS_ERR("%s: ore_write failed.\n", __func__);
- else
- sb->s_dirt = 0;
unlock_super(sb);
@@ -412,14 +410,6 @@ out:
return ret;
}
-static void exofs_write_super(struct super_block *sb)
-{
- if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
- exofs_sync_fs(sb, 1);
- else
- sb->s_dirt = 0;
-}
-
static void _exofs_print_device(const char *msg, const char *dev_path,
struct osd_dev *od, u64 pid)
{
@@ -952,7 +942,6 @@ static const struct super_operations exofs_sops = {
.write_inode = exofs_write_inode,
.evict_inode = exofs_evict_inode,
.put_super = exofs_put_super,
- .write_super = exofs_write_super,
.sync_fs = exofs_sync_fs,
.statfs = exofs_statfs,
};
diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c
index 9a4a5c48b1c9..a07597307fd1 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -3459,14 +3459,6 @@ ext3_reserve_inode_write(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
* inode out, but prune_icache isn't a user-visible syncing function.
* Whenever the user wants stuff synced (sys_sync, sys_msync, sys_fsync)
* we start and wait on commits.
- *
- * Is this efficient/effective? Well, we're being nice to the system
- * by cleaning up our inodes proactively so they can be reaped
- * without I/O. But we are potentially leaving up to five seconds'
- * worth of inodes floating about which prune_icache wants us to
- * write out. One way to fix that would be to get prune_icache()
- * to do a write_super() to free up some memory. It has the desired
- * effect.
*/
int ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
{
diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
index ff9bcdc5b0d5..8c892e93d8e7 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -64,11 +64,6 @@ static int ext3_freeze(struct super_block *sb);
/*
* Wrappers for journal_start/end.
- *
- * The only special thing we need to do here is to make sure that all
- * journal_end calls result in the superblock being marked dirty, so
- * that sync() will call the filesystem's write_super callback if
- * appropriate.
*/
handle_t *ext3_journal_start_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nblocks)
{
@@ -90,12 +85,6 @@ handle_t *ext3_journal_start_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nblocks)
return journal_start(journal, nblocks);
}
-/*
- * The only special thing we need to do here is to make sure that all
- * journal_stop calls result in the superblock being marked dirty, so
- * that sync() will call the filesystem's write_super callback if
- * appropriate.
- */
int __ext3_journal_stop(const char *where, handle_t *handle)
{
struct super_block *sb;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 6324f74e0342..dff171c3a123 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1970,7 +1970,7 @@ static void ext4_end_io_buffer_write(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate);
* This function can get called via...
* - ext4_da_writepages after taking page lock (have journal handle)
* - journal_submit_inode_data_buffers (no journal handle)
- * - shrink_page_list via pdflush (no journal handle)
+ * - shrink_page_list via the kswapd/direct reclaim (no journal handle)
* - grab_page_cache when doing write_begin (have journal handle)
*
* We don't do any block allocation in this function. If we have page with
@@ -4589,14 +4589,6 @@ static int ext4_expand_extra_isize(struct inode *inode,
* inode out, but prune_icache isn't a user-visible syncing function.
* Whenever the user wants stuff synced (sys_sync, sys_msync, sys_fsync)
* we start and wait on commits.
- *
- * Is this efficient/effective? Well, we're being nice to the system
- * by cleaning up our inodes proactively so they can be reaped
- * without I/O. But we are potentially leaving up to five seconds'
- * worth of inodes floating about which prune_icache wants us to
- * write out. One way to fix that would be to get prune_icache()
- * to do a write_super() to free up some memory. It has the desired
- * effect.
*/
int ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
{
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index d76ec8277d3f..3e0851e4f468 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -326,11 +326,6 @@ static void ext4_put_nojournal(handle_t *handle)
/*
* Wrappers for jbd2_journal_start/end.
- *
- * The only special thing we need to do here is to make sure that all
- * journal_end calls result in the superblock being marked dirty, so
- * that sync() will call the filesystem's write_super callback if
- * appropriate.
*/
handle_t *ext4_journal_start_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nblocks)
{
@@ -356,12 +351,6 @@ handle_t *ext4_journal_start_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nblocks)
return jbd2_journal_start(journal, nblocks);
}
-/*
- * The only special thing we need to do here is to make sure that all
- * jbd2_journal_stop calls result in the superblock being marked dirty, so
- * that sync() will call the filesystem's write_super callback if
- * appropriate.
- */
int __ext4_journal_stop(const char *where, unsigned int line, handle_t *handle)
{
struct super_block *sb;
diff --git a/fs/fuse/control.c b/fs/fuse/control.c
index 03ff5b1eba93..75a20c092dd4 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/control.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/control.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ static ssize_t fuse_conn_max_background_write(struct file *file,
const char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
- unsigned val;
+ unsigned uninitialized_var(val);
ssize_t ret;
ret = fuse_conn_limit_write(file, buf, count, ppos, &val,
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static ssize_t fuse_conn_congestion_threshold_write(struct file *file,
const char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
- unsigned val;
+ unsigned uninitialized_var(val);
ssize_t ret;
ret = fuse_conn_limit_write(file, buf, count, ppos, &val,
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
index 3a56c8d94de0..22255d96b27e 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static int gfs2_aspace_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wb
/*
* If it's a fully non-blocking write attempt and we cannot
* lock the buffer then redirty the page. Note that this can
- * potentially cause a busy-wait loop from pdflush and kswapd
+ * potentially cause a busy-wait loop from flusher thread and kswapd
* activity, but those code paths have their own higher-level
* throttling.
*/
diff --git a/fs/hfs/mdb.c b/fs/hfs/mdb.c
index 5fd51a5833ff..b7ec224910c5 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/mdb.c
+++ b/fs/hfs/mdb.c
@@ -236,10 +236,10 @@ out:
* hfs_mdb_commit()
*
* Description:
- * This updates the MDB on disk (look also at hfs_write_super()).
+ * This updates the MDB on disk.
* It does not check, if the superblock has been modified, or
* if the filesystem has been mounted read-only. It is mainly
- * called by hfs_write_super() and hfs_btree_extend().
+ * called by hfs_sync_fs() and flush_mdb().
* Input Variable(s):
* struct hfs_mdb *mdb: Pointer to the hfs MDB
* int backup;
diff --git a/fs/jbd/journal.c b/fs/jbd/journal.c
index 425c2f2cf170..09357508ec9a 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/journal.c
@@ -534,8 +534,8 @@ int journal_start_commit(journal_t *journal, tid_t *ptid)
ret = 1;
} else if (journal->j_committing_transaction) {
/*
- * If ext3_write_super() recently started a commit, then we
- * have to wait for completion of that transaction
+ * If commit has been started, then we have to wait for
+ * completion of that transaction.
*/
if (ptid)
*ptid = journal->j_committing_transaction->t_tid;
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index e9a3c4c85594..8625da27eccf 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -612,8 +612,8 @@ int jbd2_journal_start_commit(journal_t *journal, tid_t *ptid)
ret = 1;
} else if (journal->j_committing_transaction) {
/*
- * If ext3_write_super() recently started a commit, then we
- * have to wait for completion of that transaction
+ * If commit has been started, then we have to wait for
+ * completion of that transaction.
*/
if (ptid)
*ptid = journal->j_committing_transaction->t_tid;
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 1b464390dde8..6deec035a6e9 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1541,7 +1541,7 @@ static inline int nested_symlink(struct path *path, struct nameidata *nd)
do {
struct path link = *path;
- void *cookie;
+ void *uninitialized_var(cookie);
res = follow_link(&link, nd, &cookie);
if (res)
@@ -1931,7 +1931,7 @@ static int path_lookupat(int dfd, const char *name,
if (!err && !(flags & LOOKUP_PARENT)) {
err = lookup_last(nd, &path);
while (err > 0) {
- void *cookie;
+ void *uninitialized_var(cookie);
struct path link = path;
err = may_follow_link(&link, nd);
if (unlikely(err))
@@ -2896,7 +2896,7 @@ static struct file *path_openat(int dfd, const char *pathname,
error = do_last(nd, &path, file, op, &opened, pathname);
while (unlikely(error > 0)) { /* trailing symlink */
struct path link = path;
- void *cookie;
+ void *uninitialized_var(cookie);
if (!(nd->flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)) {
path_put_conditional(&path, nd);
path_put(&nd->path);
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/super.c b/fs/nilfs2/super.c
index 6522cac6057c..6a10812711c1 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/super.c
@@ -676,17 +676,13 @@ static const struct super_operations nilfs_sops = {
.alloc_inode = nilfs_alloc_inode,
.destroy_inode = nilfs_destroy_inode,
.dirty_inode = nilfs_dirty_inode,
- /* .write_inode = nilfs_write_inode, */
- /* .drop_inode = nilfs_drop_inode, */
.evict_inode = nilfs_evict_inode,
.put_super = nilfs_put_super,
- /* .write_super = nilfs_write_super, */
.sync_fs = nilfs_sync_fs,
.freeze_fs = nilfs_freeze,
.unfreeze_fs = nilfs_unfreeze,
.statfs = nilfs_statfs,
.remount_fs = nilfs_remount,
- /* .umount_begin */
.show_options = nilfs_show_options
};
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h b/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h
index 6eee4177807b..be1267a34cea 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h
@@ -107,8 +107,6 @@ struct the_nilfs {
* used for
* - loading the latest checkpoint exclusively.
* - allocating a new full segment.
- * - protecting s_dirt in the super_block struct
- * (see nilfs_write_super) and the following fields.
*/
struct buffer_head *ns_sbh[2];
struct nilfs_super_block *ns_sbp[2];
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index f3d96e7e7b19..bc132e167d2d 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ cleanup_all:
* here, so just reset the state.
*/
file_reset_write(f);
- mnt_drop_write(f->f_path.mnt);
+ __mnt_drop_write(f->f_path.mnt);
}
}
cleanup_file:
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index b05cf47463d0..0902cfa6a12e 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -537,46 +537,6 @@ void drop_super(struct super_block *sb)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(drop_super);
/**
- * sync_supers - helper for periodic superblock writeback
- *
- * Call the write_super method if present on all dirty superblocks in
- * the system. This is for the periodic writeback used by most older
- * filesystems. For data integrity superblock writeback use
- * sync_filesystems() instead.
- *
- * Note: check the dirty flag before waiting, so we don't
- * hold up the sync while mounting a device. (The newly
- * mounted device won't need syncing.)
- */
-void sync_supers(void)
-{
- struct super_block *sb, *p = NULL;
-
- spin_lock(&sb_lock);
- list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
- if (hlist_unhashed(&sb->s_instances))
- continue;
- if (sb->s_op->write_super && sb->s_dirt) {
- sb->s_count++;
- spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
-
- down_read(&sb->s_umount);
- if (sb->s_root && sb->s_dirt && (sb->s_flags & MS_BORN))
- sb->s_op->write_super(sb);
- up_read(&sb->s_umount);
-
- spin_lock(&sb_lock);
- if (p)
- __put_super(p);
- p = sb;
- }
- }
- if (p)
- __put_super(p);
- spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
-}
-
-/**
* iterate_supers - call function for all active superblocks
* @f: function to call
* @arg: argument to pass to it
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c
index 35389ca2d267..7bd6e72afd11 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c
@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@
*
* A thing to keep in mind: inode @i_mutex is locked in most VFS operations we
* implement. However, this is not true for 'ubifs_writepage()', which may be
- * called with @i_mutex unlocked. For example, when pdflush is doing background
- * write-back, it calls 'ubifs_writepage()' with unlocked @i_mutex. At "normal"
- * work-paths the @i_mutex is locked in 'ubifs_writepage()', e.g. in the
- * "sys_write -> alloc_pages -> direct reclaim path". So, in 'ubifs_writepage()'
- * we are only guaranteed that the page is locked.
+ * called with @i_mutex unlocked. For example, when flusher thread is doing
+ * background write-back, it calls 'ubifs_writepage()' with unlocked @i_mutex.
+ * At "normal" work-paths the @i_mutex is locked in 'ubifs_writepage()', e.g.
+ * in the "sys_write -> alloc_pages -> direct reclaim path". So, in
+ * 'ubifs_writepage()' we are only guaranteed that the page is locked.
*
* Similarly, @i_mutex is not always locked in 'ubifs_readpage()', e.g., the
* read-ahead path does not lock it ("sys_read -> generic_file_aio_read ->
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c
index 1c766c39c038..c3fa6c5327a3 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static int ubifs_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
mutex_lock(&ui->ui_mutex);
/*
* Due to races between write-back forced by budgeting
- * (see 'sync_some_inodes()') and pdflush write-back, the inode may
+ * (see 'sync_some_inodes()') and background write-back, the inode may
* have already been synchronized, do not do this again. This might
* also happen if it was synchronized in an VFS operation, e.g.
* 'ubifs_link()'.
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