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| author | Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> | 2010-07-25 15:29:11 +0400 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2010-08-07 20:53:16 +0400 |
| commit | 6f904ff0e39ea88f81eb77e8dfb4e1238492f0a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a22ff5ffe31e221554915ac9135da15d3adad8d /include/linux/backing-dev.h | |
| parent | 4aeefdc69f7b6f3f287e6fd8d4b213953b9e92d8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6f904ff0e39ea88f81eb77e8dfb4e1238492f0a8.tar.xz | |
writeback: harmonize writeback threads naming
The write-back code mixes words "thread" and "task" for the same things. This
is not a big deal, but still an inconsistency.
hch: a convention I tend to use and I've seen in various places
is to always use _task for the storage of the task_struct pointer,
and thread everywhere else. This especially helps with having
foo_thread for the actual thread and foo_task for a global
variable keeping the task_struct pointer
This patch renames:
* 'bdi_add_default_flusher_task()' -> 'bdi_add_default_flusher_thread()'
* 'bdi_forker_task()' -> 'bdi_forker_thread()'
because bdi threads are 'bdi_writeback_thread()', so these names are more
consistent.
This patch also amends commentaries and makes them refer the forker and bdi
threads as "thread", not "task".
Also, while on it, make 'bdi_add_default_flusher_thread()' declaration use
'static void' instead of 'void static' and make checkpatch.pl happy.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/backing-dev.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/backing-dev.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h index e536f3a74e60..f0936f5f85dd 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ struct bdi_writeback { unsigned long last_old_flush; /* last old data flush */ - struct task_struct *task; /* writeback task */ + struct task_struct *task; /* writeback thread */ struct list_head b_dirty; /* dirty inodes */ struct list_head b_io; /* parked for writeback */ struct list_head b_more_io; /* parked for more writeback */ |