This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled blk-wbt: fix that 'rwb->wc' is always set to 1 in wbt_init() to the 5.10-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: blk-wbt-fix-that-rwb-wc-is-always-set-to-1-in-wbt_init.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 285febabac4a16655372d23ff43e89ff6f216691 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2022 18:10:38 +0800 Subject: blk-wbt: fix that 'rwb->wc' is always set to 1 in wbt_init() From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 285febabac4a16655372d23ff43e89ff6f216691 upstream. commit 8c5035dfbb94 ("blk-wbt: call rq_qos_add() after wb_normal is initialized") moves wbt_set_write_cache() before rq_qos_add(), which is wrong because wbt_rq_qos() is still NULL. Fix the problem by removing wbt_set_write_cache() and setting 'rwb->wc' directly. Noted that this patch also remove the redundant setting of 'rab->wc'. Fixes: 8c5035dfbb94 ("blk-wbt: call rq_qos_add() after wb_normal is initialized") Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202210081045.77ddf59b-yujie.liu@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221009101038.1692875-1-yukuai1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-wbt.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/block/blk-wbt.c +++ b/block/blk-wbt.c @@ -838,12 +838,11 @@ int wbt_init(struct request_queue *q) rwb->last_comp = rwb->last_issue = jiffies; rwb->win_nsec = RWB_WINDOW_NSEC; rwb->enable_state = WBT_STATE_ON_DEFAULT; - rwb->wc = 1; + rwb->wc = test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_WC, &q->queue_flags); rwb->rq_depth.default_depth = RWB_DEF_DEPTH; rwb->min_lat_nsec = wbt_default_latency_nsec(q); wbt_queue_depth_changed(&rwb->rqos); - wbt_set_write_cache(q, test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_WC, &q->queue_flags)); /* * Assign rwb and add the stats callback. Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/blk-wbt-fix-that-rwb-wc-is-always-set-to-1-in-wbt_init.patch queue-5.10/block-wbt-remove-unnecessary-invoking-of-wbt_update_limits-in-wbt_init.patch queue-5.10/blk-wbt-call-rq_qos_add-after-wb_normal-is-initialized.patch