From c3c532061e46156e8aab1268f38d66cfb63aeb2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:37:01 +0200 Subject: bdi: add helper function for doing init and register of a bdi for a file system Pretty trivial helper, just sets up the bdi and registers it. An atomic sequence count is used to ensure that the registered sysfs names are unique. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/backing-dev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h index fcbc26af00e4..e19c677f219c 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent, const char *fmt, ...); int bdi_register_dev(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, dev_t dev); void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi); +int bdi_setup_and_register(struct backing_dev_info *, char *, unsigned int); void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct super_block *sb, long nr_pages); int bdi_writeback_task(struct bdi_writeback *wb); -- cgit v1.2.3 From 5129a469a91a91427334c40e29e64c6d0ab68caf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jörn Engel Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:54:42 +0200 Subject: Catch filesystems lacking s_bdi noop_backing_dev_info is used only as a flag to mark filesystems that don't have any backing store, like tmpfs, procfs, spufs, etc. Signed-off-by: Joern Engel Changed the BUG_ON() to a WARN_ON(). Note that adding dirty inodes to the noop_backing_dev_info is not legal and will not result in them being flushed, but we already catch this condition in __mark_inode_dirty() when checking for a registered bdi. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- fs/super.c | 8 +++++--- fs/sync.c | 3 ++- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 1 + mm/backing-dev.c | 5 +++++ 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/backing-dev.h') diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index f35ac6022109..dc72491a19f9 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -693,6 +693,7 @@ int set_anon_super(struct super_block *s, void *data) return -EMFILE; } s->s_dev = MKDEV(0, dev & MINORMASK); + s->s_bdi = &noop_backing_dev_info; return 0; } @@ -954,10 +955,11 @@ vfs_kern_mount(struct file_system_type *type, int flags, const char *name, void if (error < 0) goto out_free_secdata; BUG_ON(!mnt->mnt_sb); + WARN_ON(!mnt->mnt_sb->s_bdi); - error = security_sb_kern_mount(mnt->mnt_sb, flags, secdata); - if (error) - goto out_sb; + error = security_sb_kern_mount(mnt->mnt_sb, flags, secdata); + if (error) + goto out_sb; /* * filesystems should never set s_maxbytes larger than MAX_LFS_FILESIZE diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c index fc5c3d75cf3c..92b228176f7c 100644 --- a/fs/sync.c +++ b/fs/sync.c @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "internal.h" #define VALID_FLAGS (SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE| \ @@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait) * This should be safe, as we require bdi backing to actually * write out data in the first place */ - if (!sb->s_bdi) + if (!sb->s_bdi || sb->s_bdi == &noop_backing_dev_info) return 0; if (sb->s_qcop && sb->s_qcop->quota_sync) diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h index e19c677f219c..bd0e3c6f323f 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int max_ratio); #endif extern struct backing_dev_info default_backing_dev_info; +extern struct backing_dev_info noop_backing_dev_info; void default_unplug_io_fn(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct page *page); int writeback_in_progress(struct backing_dev_info *bdi); diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index dbda4707f593..707d0dc6da0f 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ struct backing_dev_info default_backing_dev_info = { }; EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(default_backing_dev_info); +struct backing_dev_info noop_backing_dev_info = { + .name = "noop", +}; +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(noop_backing_dev_info); + static struct class *bdi_class; /* -- cgit v1.2.3