linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] bdi: Use parent filesystem BDI for inodes not capable of writeback

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Date:	Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:21:29 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] bdi: Use parent filesystem BDI for inodes not
 capable of writeback

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 04:12:07PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:01:31PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > It shouldn't.  Block device nodes are on the bdev filesystems, and
> >   Ok, so inode->i_sb->s_bdi will actually point to noop_backing_dev_info
> > as set by set_anon_super(). Or am I completely out?
> 
> I think you're right.  This seems rather bad if it's indeed true. I'll
> quickly verify it using Dave's new tracing once I've built a block
> tree kernel.

Indeed it does.  So using ->s_bdi actually is wrong for the block
device node, given that it does set up the bdevfs inode's 
backing_dev_info to the proper one, but can't actually do it for
the per-sb one.
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