The patch titled Subject: writeback-safer-lock-nesting-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is writeback-safer-lock-nesting-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/writeback-safer-lock-nesting-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/writeback-safer-lock-nesting-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: writeback-safer-lock-nesting-fix comment tweaks, struct initialization simplification Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wang Long <wanglong19@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 3 ++- mm/page-writeback.c | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/backing-dev.h~writeback-safer-lock-nesting-fix include/linux/backing-dev.h --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h~writeback-safer-lock-nesting-fix +++ a/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -355,7 +355,8 @@ static inline struct bdi_writeback *inod * unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(). * * The caller must call unlocked_inode_to_wb_end() with *@cookie afterwards and - * can't sleep during transaction. IRQ may or may not be disabled on return. + * can't sleep during the transaction. IRQs may or may not be disabled on + * return. */ static inline struct bdi_writeback * unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(struct inode *inode, struct wb_lock_cookie *cookie) diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~writeback-safer-lock-nesting-fix mm/page-writeback.c --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~writeback-safer-lock-nesting-fix +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2501,7 +2501,7 @@ void account_page_redirty(struct page *p if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { struct inode *inode = mapping->host; struct bdi_writeback *wb; - struct wb_lock_cookie cookie = {0}; + struct wb_lock_cookie cookie = {}; wb = unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode, &cookie); current->nr_dirtied--; @@ -2613,7 +2613,7 @@ void __cancel_dirty_page(struct page *pa if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { struct inode *inode = mapping->host; struct bdi_writeback *wb; - struct wb_lock_cookie cookie = {0}; + struct wb_lock_cookie cookie = {}; lock_page_memcg(page); wb = unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode, &cookie); @@ -2653,7 +2653,7 @@ int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { struct inode *inode = mapping->host; struct bdi_writeback *wb; - struct wb_lock_cookie cookie = {0}; + struct wb_lock_cookie cookie = {}; /* * Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are i-need-old-gcc.patch mm-gup_benchmark-handle-gup-failures-fix.patch mm-pagemap-fix-swap-offset-value-for-pmd-migration-entry-fix.patch writeback-safer-lock-nesting-fix.patch arm-arch-arm-include-asm-pageh-needs-personalityh.patch ocfs2-without-quota-support-try-to-avoid-calling-quota-recovery-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm.patch z3fold-fix-memory-leak-fix.patch list_lru-prefetch-neighboring-list-entries-before-acquiring-lock-fix.patch mm-oom-cgroup-aware-oom-killer-fix.patch mm-oom-docs-describe-the-cgroup-aware-oom-killer-fix-2-fix.patch proc-add-seq_put_decimal_ull_width-to-speed-up-proc-pid-smaps-fix.patch fs-reiserfs-journalc-add-missing-resierfs_warning-arg.patch ipc-shmc-shm_split-remove-unneeded-test-for-null-shm_file_datavm_ops.patch linux-next-rejects.patch linux-next-fixup.patch fs-fsnotify-account-fsnotify-metadata-to-kmemcg-fix.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch slab-leaks3-default-y.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html