This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bdi: move bdi_dev_name out of line
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
bdi-move-bdi_dev_name-out-of-line.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 6c7b040473a588c52cc737b0c8639511f6553ac4
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon May 4 14:47:54 2020 +0200
bdi: move bdi_dev_name out of line
[ Upstream commit eb7ae5e06bb6e6ac6bb86872d27c43ebab92f6b2 ]
bdi_dev_name is not a fast path function, move it out of line. This
prepares for using it from modular callers without having to export
an implementation detail like bdi_unknown_name.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index f88197c1ffc2d..c9ad5c3b7b4b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -505,13 +505,6 @@ static inline int bdi_rw_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
(1 << WB_async_congested));
}
-extern const char *bdi_unknown_name;
-
-static inline const char *bdi_dev_name(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
-{
- if (!bdi || !bdi->dev)
- return bdi_unknown_name;
- return dev_name(bdi->dev);
-}
+const char *bdi_dev_name(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
#endif /* _LINUX_BACKING_DEV_H */
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 62f05f605fb5b..680e5028d0fc5 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info noop_backing_dev_info = {
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(noop_backing_dev_info);
static struct class *bdi_class;
-const char *bdi_unknown_name = "(unknown)";
+static const char *bdi_unknown_name = "(unknown)";
/*
* bdi_lock protects bdi_tree and updates to bdi_list. bdi_list has RCU
@@ -1043,6 +1043,14 @@ void bdi_put(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_put);
+const char *bdi_dev_name(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
+{
+ if (!bdi || !bdi->dev)
+ return bdi_unknown_name;
+ return dev_name(bdi->dev);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdi_dev_name);
+
static wait_queue_head_t congestion_wqh[2] = {
__WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_INITIALIZER(congestion_wqh[0]),
__WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_INITIALIZER(congestion_wqh[1])
