Re: [GIT PULL] a few writeback fixes

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi Linus,
> 
> This fixes a problem with NFS killing its bdi without being 
> initialized, and also contains a fix for a busy loop (where we forgot 
> to set the task state before sleeping). Since these are a bit critical 
> for -rc1, I'm pushing them out before leaving for Portland.
> 
> Jan, since we're not really sure on the inode wait yet, I dropped that 
> patch. It's definitely something to look into, as are the congestion 
> bits.
> 
> I plan on adding some writeback tracing code while on the plane for 
> further analysis when I get back.
> 
>   git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git writeback
> 
> Jens Axboe (4):
>       nfs: nfs_kill_super() should call bdi_unregister() after killing super
>       writeback: don't use schedule_timeout() without setting runstate
>       writeback: make balance_dirty_pages() gradually back more off
>       nfs: initialize the backing_dev_info when creating the server
> 
>  fs/nfs/client.c     |   10 ++++++----
>  fs/nfs/super.c      |    2 +-
>  mm/page-writeback.c |   11 ++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

just an update about the BDI slab corruption bugs i reported in this 
thread on lkml:

   [origin tree SLAB corruption] BUG kmalloc-64: Poison overwritten,
        INFO: Allocated in bdi_alloc_work+0x2b/0x100 age=175 cpu=1 pid=3514

They have gone away entirely with your earlier BDI fixes/updates, on all 
-tip testsystems that triggered it. So that bug can be closed for good.

Thanks,

	Ingo