2010-04-27 16:20:15

by Randy Dunlap

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Subject: linux-next: April 27 (mm/page-writeback)

When CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled:

mm/page-writeback.c:707: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
mm/page-writeback.c:708: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

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~Randy


2010-04-27 18:08:26

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: linux-next: April 27 (mm/page-writeback)

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:19:30 -0700 (PDT)
Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:

> When CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled:
>
> mm/page-writeback.c:707: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mm/page-writeback.c:708: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>

Subject: "laptop-mode: Make flushes per-device" fix
From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

When CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled:

mm/page-writeback.c:707: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
mm/page-writeback.c:708: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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block/blk-core.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
include/linux/writeback.h | 1 -
mm/page-writeback.c | 15 ---------------
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff -puN block/blk-core.c~laptop-mode-make-flushes-per-device-fix block/blk-core.c
--- a/block/blk-core.c~laptop-mode-make-flushes-per-device-fix
+++ a/block/blk-core.c
@@ -488,6 +488,21 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue(gf
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_alloc_queue);

+static void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
+{
+ struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data;
+ int nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
+ global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
+
+ /*
+ * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
+ * threshold
+ */
+
+ if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
+ bdi_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info, NULL, nr_pages);
+}
+
struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue_node(gfp_t gfp_mask, int node_id)
{
struct request_queue *q;
diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~laptop-mode-make-flushes-per-device-fix mm/page-writeback.c
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c~laptop-mode-make-flushes-per-device-fix
+++ a/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -693,21 +693,6 @@ int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ct
return 0;
}

-void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
-{
- struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data;
- int nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
- global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
-
- /*
- * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
- * threshold
- */
-
- if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
- bdi_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info, NULL, nr_pages);
-}
-
/*
* We've spun up the disk and we're in laptop mode: schedule writeback
* of all dirty data a few seconds from now. If the flush is already scheduled
diff -puN include/linux/writeback.h~laptop-mode-make-flushes-per-device-fix include/linux/writeback.h
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h~laptop-mode-make-flushes-per-device-fix
+++ a/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ static inline void inode_sync_wait(struc
void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info);
void laptop_sync_completion(void);
void laptop_mode_sync(struct work_struct *work);
-void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data);
void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask);

/* These are exported to sysctl. */
_

2010-04-27 18:13:35

by Jens Axboe

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Subject: Re: linux-next: April 27 (mm/page-writeback)

On Tue, Apr 27 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:19:30 -0700 (PDT)
> Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > When CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled:
> >
> > mm/page-writeback.c:707: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> > mm/page-writeback.c:708: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> >
>
> Subject: "laptop-mode: Make flushes per-device" fix
> From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
>
> When CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled:
>
> mm/page-writeback.c:707: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mm/page-writeback.c:708: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

Thanks Andrew, I've added this to the .35 branch.

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Jens Axboe