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@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 7 +++++++ include/linux/backing-dev.h | 1 + mm/backing-dev.c | 6 ++++++ 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 7e139d5..12a8dfd 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -646,6 +646,13 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode, int flags) */ if (!was_dirty) { struct bdi_writeback *wb = inode_get_wb(inode); + struct backing_dev_info *bdi = wb->bdi; + + if (bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi) && + !test_bit(BDI_registered, &bdi->state)) { + WARN_ON(1); + printk("bdi-%s not registered\n", bdi->name); + } inode->dirtied_when = jiffies; list_move(&inode->i_list, &wb->b_dirty); diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h index 3e52c98..47ed0f2 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ enum bdi_state { BDI_wblist_lock, /* bdi->wb_list now needs locking */ BDI_async_congested, /* The async (write) queue is getting full */ BDI_sync_congested, /* The sync queue is getting full */ + BDI_registered, /* bdi_register() was done */ BDI_unused, /* Available bits start here */ }; diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index c6a62f4..036b07b 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -569,6 +569,11 @@ static void bdi_add_one_flusher_task(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, if (!bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi)) return; + if (WARN_ON(!test_bit(BDI_registered, &bdi->state))) { + printk("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 @@ -678,6 +683,7 @@ remove_err: } bdi_debug_register(bdi, dev_name(dev)); + set_bit(BDI_registered, &bdi->state); exit: return ret; } -- 1.6.4.1.207.g68ea -- 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