Re: [PATCH] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs

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On 12/17/2010 06:21 AM, Wu Fengguang wrote:
This avoids unnecessary checks and dirty throttling on tmpfs/ramfs.

It also prevents

[  388.126563] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050

in the balance_dirty_pages tracepoint, which will call

	dev_name(mapping->backing_dev_info->dev)

but shmem_backing_dev_info.dev is NULL.

CC: Hugh Dickins<hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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