linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/17] writeback: skip balance_dirty

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Message-ID: <20110516104947.GA5902@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 16 May 2011 18:49:47 +0800
From:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/17] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for
 in-memory fs

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:43:39PM +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Isn't this a fix that should go to Linus ASAP independent of the rest
> of this series to fix tmpfs?

Ah sorry for the confusing changelog: it's not a bug fix patch because
the impacted balance_dirty_pages trace point is not upstream yet.

I'll remove that "NULL dereference bug" from the changelog.

Thanks,
Fengguang
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