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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] bdi: Use parent filesystem BDI for inodes not capable of writeback
> +static struct backing_dev_info *inode_to_bdi(struct inode *inode)
> +{
> + struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info;
> +
> + /*
> + * This is a hack but it solves a problem with device inode
> + * for e.g. /dev/zero getting dirty (via touch or so) and confusing
> + * writeback code. In such cases we return the "parent" filesystem's
> + * bdi.
> + */
> + if (bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi))
> + return bdi;
> + return inode->i_sb->s_bdi;

When do we ever have a writeback-capable bdi that sits inside another
filesystem? I think just always using inode->i_sb->s_bdi is the right
thing here.

And btw, having a BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK instead of a BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK
is rather dumb, we'd better fix it up while we're at it.



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