Re: [PATCH 3/3] bdi: Initialize noop_backing_dev_info properly

[Jan Kara]

On Tue 27-07-10 13:09:39, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:05:01PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Properly initialize this backing dev info so that writeback code does not
> > barf when getting to it e.g. via sb->s_bdi.
> 
> When do we actually get it in s_bdi?  That should never happen.
  Well, set_anon_super() sets it. I'm not sure if filesystems using this
are supposed to reset it to something else or not... It's a bit messy and
nowhere is actually written how things should be. One can just guess ;)


								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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