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SubjectRe: Testing for dirty buffers on a block device
On Wed, Feb 24 2010, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > > > But if you wanted, I guess the only way would be to lookup
> > > > dirty/writeback pages on the bdev inode mapping. For that you'd need the
> > > > bdev, not the gendisk or the queue though.
> > >
> > > I can get the bdev from the gendisk by calling bdget_disk() with a
> > > partition number of 0, right? What would the next step be? Would this
> > > check for dirty pages associated with any of the partitions or would it
> > > only look at pages associated with the inode for the entire disk?
> >
> > It would cover the entire bdev.
>
> Okay, so once I've got the bdev, how do I look up the dirty/writeback
> pages on the inode mapping?

I _think_ you can get away with not doing a radix lookup for dirty
pages, just looking at the BDI_RECLAIMABLE stat on the bdi. That would
be:

bdi_stat(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);

--
Jens Axboe



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