Re: [PATCH 1/8] mm/writeback: fix wb_do_writeback exported unsafely

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On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:02:17AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>On Fri 14-06-13 15:30:34, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> There is just one caller in fs-writeback.c call wb_do_writeback and
>> current codes unnecessary export it in header file, this patch fix
>> it by changing wb_do_writeback to static function.
>
>So what?
>
>Besides that git grep wb_do_writeback tells that 
>mm/backing-dev.c:                       wb_do_writeback(me, 0);
>

I don't think this can be found in 3.10-rc1 ~ 3.10-rc5. ;-) 
Since Tejun's patchset commit 839a8e86("writeback: replace 
custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue")
merged, just one caller in fs/fs-writeback.c now. 

>Have you tested this at all?
>

I test them all against 3.10-rc5. ;-)

>> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  fs/fs-writeback.c         | 2 +-
>>  include/linux/writeback.h | 1 -
>>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
>> index 3be5718..f892dec 100644
>> --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
>> +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
>> @@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ static long wb_check_old_data_flush(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
>>  /*
>>   * Retrieve work items and do the writeback they describe
>>   */
>> -long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait)
>> +static long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait)
>>  {
>>  	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = wb->bdi;
>>  	struct wb_writeback_work *work;
>> diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
>> index 579a500..e27468e 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/writeback.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
>> @@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ int try_to_writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr,
>>  void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *);
>>  long writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages,
>>  				enum wb_reason reason);
>> -long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait);
>>  void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_pages, enum wb_reason reason);
>>  void inode_wait_for_writeback(struct inode *inode);
>>  
>> -- 
>> 1.8.1.2
>> 
>
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>Michal Hocko
>SUSE Labs
>
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