Re: [PATCH] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs

Minchan Kim
2010-12-17T15:34:06Z

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> This avoids unnecessary checks and dirty throttling on tmpfs/ramfs.
>
> It also prevents
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> [  388.126563] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050
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> in the balance_dirty_pages tracepoint, which will call
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>        dev_name(mapping->backing_dev_info->dev)
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> but shmem_backing_dev_info.dev is NULL.
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> CC: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>

Is it a material for -stable?

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim