writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty

Also a debugging aid. We want to catch dirty inodes being added to
backing devices that don't do writeback.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe 2009-09-09 09:10:25 +02:00
parent d993831fa7
commit 500b067c5e
3 changed files with 16 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -465,6 +465,12 @@ void static bdi_add_default_flusher_task(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
if (!bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi))
return;
if (WARN_ON(!test_bit(BDI_registered, &bdi->state))) {
printk(KERN_ERR "bdi %p/%s is not registered!\n",
bdi, bdi->name);
return;
}
/*
* Check with the helper whether to proceed adding a task. Will only
* abort if we two or more simultanous calls to
@ -528,6 +534,7 @@ int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent,
}
bdi_debug_register(bdi, dev_name(dev));
set_bit(BDI_registered, &bdi->state);
exit:
return ret;
}