linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/17] abstract out the super block clean/dirty state

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Date:	Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:53:59 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/17] abstract out the super block clean/dirty state

Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> here is a set of trivial patches which encapsulate the 'sb->s_dirt' variable
> into 3 new helper VFS functions:
> 
> * static inline void mark_sb_dirty(struct super_block *sb)
> * static inline void mark_sb_clean(struct super_block *sb)
> * static inline int sb_is_dirty(struct super_block *sb)
> 
> With these patches the whole Linux kernel tree has only 3 places where
> 'sb->s_dirt' is referred.

Sorry, forgot to mention that the patches were made on top of
the VFS tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git for-next

commit f932bb0daca28ffe69ec876043cac00bc9b50147
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Date:   Tue May 12 07:37:56 2009 -0400

    Fix nobh_truncate_page() to not pass stack garbage to get_block()

And they are also available at
git://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/misc-2.6.git sb-helpers-v1

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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