From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
To: hch@lst.de, jack@suse.cz, miquel.raynal@bootlin.com,
mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, richard@nod.at, vigneshr@ti.com
Subject: + mm-simplify-bdi-refcounting-fix.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 01:00:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211027080057.3pVuWi1XY%akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
The patch titled
Subject: mm-simplify-bdi-refcounting-fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-simplify-bdi-refcounting-fix.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-simplify-bdi-refcounting-fix.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-simplify-bdi-refcounting-fix.patch
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: mm-simplify-bdi-refcounting-fix
add comment
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211027074207.GA12793@lst.de
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h~mm-simplify-bdi-refcounting-fix
+++ a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ struct wb_completion {
* change as blkcg is disabled and enabled higher up in the hierarchy, a wb
* is tested for blkcg after lookup and removed from index on mismatch so
* that a new wb for the combination can be created.
+ *
+ * Each bdi_writeback that is no embedded into the backing_dev_info must hold
+ * a reference to the parent backing_dev_info. See cgwb_create() for details.
*/
struct bdi_writeback {
struct backing_dev_info *bdi; /* our parent bdi */
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@lst.de are
mm-dont-include-linux-daxh-in-linux-mempolicyh.patch
mm-export-bdi_unregister.patch
mtd-call-bdi_unregister-explicitly.patch
fs-explicitly-unregister-per-superblock-bdis.patch
mm-dont-automatically-unregister-bdis.patch
mm-simplify-bdi-refcounting.patch
mm-simplify-bdi-refcounting-fix.patch
mm-unexport-folio_memcg_unlock.patch
mm-unexport-unlock_page_memcg.patch
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