Re: [PATCH 6.6] gfs2: replace sd_aspace with sd_inode

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Aug 12 2025 - 06:52:41 EST


On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 02:40:04PM -0500, Sumanth Gavini wrote:
> commit ae9f3bd8259a0a8f67be2420e66bb05fbb95af48 upstream.
>
> Currently, sdp->sd_aspace and the per-inode metadata address spaces use
> sb->s_bdev->bd_mapping->host as their ->host; folios in those address
> spaces will thus appear to be on bdev rather than on gfs2 filesystems.
> This is a problem because gfs2 doesn't support cgroup writeback
> (SB_I_CGROUPWB), but bdev does.
>
> Fix that by using a "dummy" gfs2 inode as ->host in those address
> spaces. When coming from a folio, folio->mapping->host->i_sb will then
> be a gfs2 super block and the SB_I_CGROUPWB flag will not be set in
> sb->s_iflags.
>
> Based on a previous version from Bob Peterson from several years ago.
> Thanks to Tetsuo Handa, Jan Kara, and Rafael Aquini for helping figure
> this out.
>
> Fixes: aaa2cacf8184 ("writeback: add lockdep annotation to inode_to_wb()")
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sumanth Gavini <sumanth.gavini@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

This is very different from the original commit and you did not document
that :(

Please fix up and resend.

thanks,

greg k-h