This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
writeback: fix the wrong congested state variable definition
to the 4.4-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:
writeback-fix-the-wrong-congested-state-variable-definition.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c877ef8ae7b8edaedccad0fc8c23d4d1de7e2480 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:19:41 +0000
Subject: writeback: fix the wrong congested state variable definition
From: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit c877ef8ae7b8edaedccad0fc8c23d4d1de7e2480 upstream.
The right variable definition should be wb_congested_state that
include WB_async_congested and WB_sync_congested. So fix it.
Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/backing-dev.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@ static atomic_t nr_wb_congested[2];
void clear_wb_congested(struct bdi_writeback_congested *congested, int sync)
{
wait_queue_head_t *wqh = &congestion_wqh[sync];
- enum wb_state bit;
+ enum wb_congested_state bit;
bit = sync ? WB_sync_congested : WB_async_congested;
if (test_and_clear_bit(bit, &congested->state))
@@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_wb_congested);
void set_wb_congested(struct bdi_writeback_congested *congested, int sync)
{
- enum wb_state bit;
+ enum wb_congested_state bit;
bit = sync ? WB_sync_congested : WB_async_congested;
if (!test_and_set_bit(bit, &congested->state))
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiakaixu@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/writeback-fix-the-wrong-congested-state-variable-definition.patch