Re: [PATCH 0/11] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v9

Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-29T15:42:17Z

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 17:19 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>>> question is - should it? 'bdi_register()' a block device,
>>> but we do not have one.
>> Sorry, wanted to say: 'bdi_register()' registers a block
>> device.
>
> BDI stands for backing device info and is not related to block devices
> other than that block devices can also be (ok, always are) backing
> devices.
>
> If you want to do writeback, you need a backing device to write to. The
> BDI is the device abstraction for writeback.

I see, thanks. The below UBIFS patch fixes the issue. I'll
push it to ubifs-2.6.git tree, unless there are objections.

From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Subject: [PATCH] UBIFS: do not forget to register BDI device

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
---
fs/ubifs/super.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c
index 2349e2c..d1ac967 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -1929,6 +1929,9 @@ static int ubifs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
err = bdi_init(&c->bdi);
if (err)
goto out_close;
+ err = bdi_register(&c->bdi, NULL, "ubifs");
+ if (err)
+ goto out_close;

err = ubifs_parse_options(c, data, 0);
if (err)
--
1.6.0.6

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)