Hello, Ilya. On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 04:48:06PM +0100, Ilya Dryomov wrote: > Just to be clear, the bdi/wb vs inode lifetime rules are that inodes > should always be within bdi/wb? There's been a lot of churn in this Yes, that's where *I* think we should be headed. Stuff in lower layers should stick around while upper layer things are around. > and related areas recently, including in block drivers: 6cd18e711dd8 > ("block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered"), b02176f30cd3 > ("block: don't release bdi while request_queue has live references"), > so I want to fully get my head around this. End-of-life issue has always been a bit of mess in the block layer. Thanks a lot for working on this. -- tejun -- 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