linux-kernel - Re: [Lsf] [RFC] writeback and cgroup

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Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:14:24 +0800
From:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, ctalbott@...gle.com,
	rni@...gle.com, andrea@...terlinux.com,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lsf@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, jmoyer@...hat.com, lizefan@...wei.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Lsf] [RFC] writeback and cgroup

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:52:07AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 09:07:07PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> 
> [..]
> > Vivek, I noticed these lines in cfq code
> > 
> >                 sscanf(dev_name(bdi->dev), "%u:%u", &major, &minor);
> > 
> > Why not use bdi->dev->devt?  The problem is that dev_name() will
> > return "btrfs-X" for btrfs rather than "major:minor".
> 
> Isn't bdi->dev->devt 0?  I see following code.
> 
> add_disk()
>    bdi_register_dev()
>       bdi_register()
>          device_create_vargs(MKDEV(0,0))
> 	      dev->devt = devt = MKDEV(0,0);
> 
> So for normal block devices, I think bdi->dev->devt will be zero, that's
> why probably we don't use it.

Yes indeed. I can confirm this with tracing. There are two main cases

- some filesystems do not have a real device for the bdi.

- add_disk() calls bdi_register_dev() with the devt, however this
  information is not passed down for some reason.
  device_create_vargs() will try to create a sysfs dev file if the
  devt is not MKDEV(0,0).

Thanks,
Fengguang
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