linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] zram: revalidate disk under init

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Date:   Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:38:32 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
        Hyeoncheol Lee <cheol.lee@....com>, yjay.kim@....com,
        Sangseok Lee <sangseok.lee@....com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] zram: revalidate disk under init_lock


Hi,

On (11/25/16 17:35), Minchan Kim wrote:
> [1] moved revalidate_disk call out of init_lock to avoid lockdep
> false-positive splat. However, [2] remove init_lock in IO path
> so there is no worry about lockdep splat. So, let's restore it.
> This patch need to set BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES atomically in
> next patch.

can we break that dependency on the next patch if we would
set BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES when we allocate the queue?

	queue->backing_dev_info.capabilities |= BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK;

	-ss