The quilt patch titled Subject: writeback: remove inode_to_wb_is_valid() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was writeback-cleanup-inode_to_wb_is_valid.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: writeback: remove inode_to_wb_is_valid() Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:41:47 +0800 inode_to_wb_is_valid() is no longer used since commit fe55d563d417 ("remove inode_congested()"), remove it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220714084147.140324-1-xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 17 ----------------- 1 file changed, 17 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h~writeback-cleanup-inode_to_wb_is_valid +++ a/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -230,18 +230,6 @@ wb_get_create_current(struct backing_dev } /** - * inode_to_wb_is_valid - test whether an inode has a wb associated - * @inode: inode of interest - * - * Returns %true if @inode has a wb associated. May be called without any - * locking. - */ -static inline bool inode_to_wb_is_valid(struct inode *inode) -{ - return inode->i_wb; -} - -/** * inode_to_wb - determine the wb of an inode * @inode: inode of interest * @@ -339,11 +327,6 @@ wb_get_create_current(struct backing_dev return &bdi->wb; } -static inline bool inode_to_wb_is_valid(struct inode *inode) -{ - return true; -} - static inline struct bdi_writeback *inode_to_wb(struct inode *inode) { return &inode_to_bdi(inode)->wb; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx are bdi-remove-enum-wb_congested_state.patch