If a driver leaves the limit settings as the defaults, then we don't initialize bdi->io_pages. This means that file systems may need to work around bdi->io_pages == 0, which is somewhat messy. Initialize the default value just like we do for ->ra_pages. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c index d9d632639bd1..10c08ac50697 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -539,6 +539,7 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue(int node_id) goto fail_stats; q->backing_dev_info->ra_pages = VM_READAHEAD_PAGES; + q->backing_dev_info->io_pages = VM_READAHEAD_PAGES; q->backing_dev_info->capabilities = BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK; q->node = node_id; -- Jens Axboe