Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 7 authors, 2021-10-14

Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: hide laptop_mode_wb_timer entirely behind the BDI API

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-08-11 05:22:35
Also in: linux-block, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 02:56:22PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 04:17:40PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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Don't leak the detaÑ–ls of the timer into the block layer, instead
initialize the timer in bdi_alloc and delete it in bdi_unregister.
Note that this means the timer is initialized (but not armed) for
non-block queues as well now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Just in case this hasn't been reported yet.
This patch results in a widespread build failure. Example:
Sorry.  This was reported before and a fix is already queued up here:

https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/commit/?h=for-5.15/block&id=99d26de2f6d79badc80f55b54bd90d4cb9d1ad90
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