This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled block: mq-deadline: Rename deadline_is_seq_writes() to the 5.15-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: block-mq-deadline-rename-deadline_is_seq_writes.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3692fec8bb476e8583e559ff5783a6adef306cf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 11:55:49 +0900 Subject: block: mq-deadline: Rename deadline_is_seq_writes() From: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 3692fec8bb476e8583e559ff5783a6adef306cf2 upstream. Rename deadline_is_seq_writes() to deadline_is_seq_write() (remove the "s" plural) to more correctly reflect the fact that this function tests a single request, not multiple requests. Fixes: 015d02f48537 ("block: mq-deadline: Do not break sequential write streams to zoned HDDs") Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221126025550.967914-2-damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/mq-deadline.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/block/mq-deadline.c +++ b/block/mq-deadline.c @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static inline int deadline_check_fifo(st /* * Check if rq has a sequential request preceding it. */ -static bool deadline_is_seq_writes(struct deadline_data *dd, struct request *rq) +static bool deadline_is_seq_write(struct deadline_data *dd, struct request *rq) { struct request *prev = deadline_earlier_request(rq); @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ deadline_fifo_request(struct deadline_da list_for_each_entry(rq, &per_prio->fifo_list[DD_WRITE], queuelist) { if (blk_req_can_dispatch_to_zone(rq) && (blk_queue_nonrot(rq->q) || - !deadline_is_seq_writes(dd, rq))) + !deadline_is_seq_write(dd, rq))) goto out; } rq = NULL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/block-mq-deadline-rename-deadline_is_seq_writes.patch queue-5.15/zonefs-detect-append-writes-at-invalid-locations.patch