Catch filesystems lacking s_bdi

noop_backing_dev_info is used only as a flag to mark filesystems that
don't have any backing store, like tmpfs, procfs, spufs, etc.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>

Changed the BUG_ON() to a WARN_ON(). Note that adding dirty inodes
to the noop_backing_dev_info is not legal and will not result in
them being flushed, but we already catch this condition in
__mark_inode_dirty() when checking for a registered bdi.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jörn Engel 2010-04-25 08:54:42 +02:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent 7e2455c1a1
commit 5129a469a9
4 changed files with 13 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int max_ratio);
#endif
extern struct backing_dev_info default_backing_dev_info;
extern struct backing_dev_info noop_backing_dev_info;
void default_unplug_io_fn(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct page *page);
int writeback_in_progress(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);