On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:54:32AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:

[..]

+/**
+ * inode_attach_wb - associate an inode with its wb
+ * @inode: inode of interest
+ * @page: page being dirtied (may be NULL)
+ *
+ * If @inode doesn't have its wb, associate it with the wb matching the
+ * memcg of @page or, if @page is NULL, %current.  May be called w/ or w/o
+ * @inode->i_lock.
+ */
+static inline void inode_attach_wb(struct inode *inode, struct page *page)
+{
+	if (!inode->i_wb)
+		__inode_attach_wb(inode, page);
+}

Hi Tejun,

I was curious to know that why do we need this "struct page *page" when
trying to attach a inode to a bdi_writeback. Is using current's cgroup
always not sufficient?

Thanks
Vivek

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