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Date:	Fri, 31 May 2013 17:36:30 +0800
From:	Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Haicheng Li <haicheng.lee@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] writeback: make local functions as static

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:21:21AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 29-05-13 21:49:38, Haicheng Li wrote:
> > Functions not used globally should be static.
>   I agree for wb_do_writeback().
Ok, thanks.

> You definitely shouldn't make
> writeback_inodes_sb_nr() static, that it part of generic writeback API
> (although it is currently unused, I agree). 
It seems never used globally since it was introduced by commit 3259f8be.

> I'm somewhat undecided about
> writeback_inodes_wb() - it may be handy for someone wanting to write out
> everything on the bdi and it is a sane interface, OTOH it is unused as you
> say and not exporting it wouldn't break consistency of the API...
It used to be referred only by bdi_forker_thread() until commit 839a8e86 moves
the calling into fs-writeback.c.

Yep, I think both are sane i/f but unnecessary to be exported globally.
Anyway, this is just a trivial cleanup, if people still think we need to keep
them exposed to global namespace, that's also fine.

Thank you for the patch review.
> 								Honza
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@...ux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/fs-writeback.c         |    7 +++----
> >  include/linux/writeback.h |    5 -----
> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> > index 3be5718..1d66062 100644
> > --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
> > +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> > @@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ static long __writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
> >  	return wrote;
> >  }
> >  
> > -long writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages,
> > +static long writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages,
> >  				enum wb_reason reason)
> >  {
> >  	struct wb_writeback_work work = {
> > @@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ static long wb_check_old_data_flush(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
> >  /*
> >   * Retrieve work items and do the writeback they describe
> >   */
> > -long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait)
> > +static long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait)
> >  {
> >  	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = wb->bdi;
> >  	struct wb_writeback_work *work;
> > @@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb)
> >   * on how many (if any) will be written, and this function does not wait
> >   * for IO completion of submitted IO.
> >   */
> > -void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *sb,
> > +static void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *sb,
> >  			    unsigned long nr,
> >  			    enum wb_reason reason)
> >  {
> > @@ -1289,7 +1289,6 @@ void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *sb,
> >  	bdi_queue_work(sb->s_bdi, &work);
> >  	wait_for_completion(&done);
> >  }
> > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(writeback_inodes_sb_nr);
> >  
> >  /**
> >   * writeback_inodes_sb	-	writeback dirty inodes from given super_block
> > diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
> > index 579a500..ba3de47 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/writeback.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
> > @@ -86,15 +86,10 @@ struct writeback_control {
> >  struct bdi_writeback;
> >  int inode_wait(void *);
> >  void writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *, enum wb_reason reason);
> > -void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr,
> > -							enum wb_reason reason);
> >  int try_to_writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *, enum wb_reason reason);
> >  int try_to_writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr,
> >  				  enum wb_reason reason);
> >  void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *);
> > -long writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages,
> > -				enum wb_reason reason);
> > -long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait);
> >  void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_pages, enum wb_reason reason);
> >  void inode_wait_for_writeback(struct inode *inode);
> >  
> > -- 
> > 1.7.9.5
> > 
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> Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> SUSE Labs, CR
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