linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] writeback: initialize inode members that track writeback history

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Message-ID: <20160216214956.GS3741@mtj.duckdns.org>
Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:49:56 -0500
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] writeback: initialize inode members that track writeback
 history

Hello,

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 01:34:39PM -0800, Tahsin Erdogan wrote:
> inode struct members that track cgroup writeback information
> should be reinitialized when inode gets allocated from
> kmem_cache. Otherwise, their values remain and get used by the
> new inode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

This one should go for 4.5 and also prolly have the following tag.

Fixes: d10c80955265 ("writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching")

Thanks.

-- 
tejun