linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 08/13] iomap: assign current->backing_dev_info in iomap_file_buffered

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Message-ID: <20230523160244.GC15391@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 23 May 2023 18:02:44 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] iomap: assign current->backing_dev_info in
 iomap_file_buffered_write

On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 04:30:51AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> AFAICT (the code went through some metamorphoses in the intervening
> twenty years), the last use of it ended up in current_may_throttle(),
> and it was removed in March 2022 by Neil Brown in commit b9b1335e6403.
> Since then, there have been no users of task->backing_dev_info, and I'm
> pretty sure it can go away.

Oh, nice.  I hadn't noticed it finally went away.  The next iteration
of the series will just remove it.