Hi, here is an updated sent of trivial patches which abstract out the super block clean/dirty state. This is the same as v2, but it has 'sb_is_dirty()' renamed to 'is_sb_dirty()'. The v2 patches were here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124410571830989&w=2 This patchset introduces the following 3 new helper VFS functions: * static inline void mark_sb_dirty(struct super_block *sb) * static inline void mark_sb_clean(struct super_block *sb) * static inline int is_sb_dirty(struct super_block *sb) With these patches the whole Linux kernel tree has only 3 places where 'sb->s_dirt' is referred. These patches were previously sent as part of periodic write-back optimization series here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124342331127886&w=2 Because of the overlap with Jens' "per-bdi write-back" work, I have to work on top of Jens' patches. However, it would be easier for me if my preparation "abstracting sb->s_dirt" patches were merged earlier, at 2.6.31 merge window. I think they make sense in general. I would then continue working on the second part separately. The patches were made on top of the VFS tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git for-next commit f932bb0daca28ffe69ec876043cac00bc9b50147 Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 12 07:37:56 2009 -0400 Fix nobh_truncate_page() to not pass stack garbage to get_block() And they are also available at git://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/misc-2.6.git sb-helpers-v2 Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
