[PATCHSET block/for-3.18] block, bdi: various cleanups

Tejun Heo
2014-09-07T23:04:09Z

Hello,

This patchset contains the following six bdi related cleanup patches.
Each patch should be fairly self-explanatory.

0001-block-bdi-an-active-gendisk-always-has-a-request_que.patch
0002-bdi-remove-unused-stuff.patch
0003-bdi-remove-bdi-wb_lock-locking-around-bdi-dev-cleari.patch
0004-bdi-make-backing_dev_info-wb.dwork-canceling-stricte.patch
0005-bdi-explain-the-dirty-list-transferring-in-bdi_destr.patch
0006-bdi-reimplement-bdev_inode_switch_bdi.patch

The patchset is on top of 7d1311b93e58 ("Linux 3.17-rc1") and also
available in the following git branch.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git review-bdi-cleanups

diffstat follows. Thanks.

block/blk-core.c | 10 +++-------
block/compat_ioctl.c | 4 ----
block/ioctl.c | 4 ----
fs/block_dev.c | 34 +++++++++++-----------------------
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 2 --
include/linux/backing-dev.h | 4 ----
include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 +-
mm/backing-dev.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++------------------------
9 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)

--
tejun