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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Wang Long <wanglong19@meituan.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	npiggin@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] writeback: safer lock nesting
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 10:07:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180406080714.GG8286@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180406080324.160306-1-gthelen@google.com>

On Fri 06-04-18 01:03:24, Greg Thelen wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> index d4d04fee568a..d51bae5a53e2 100644
> --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
> +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> @@ -746,10 +746,11 @@ int inode_congested(struct inode *inode, int cong_bits)
>  	if (inode && inode_to_wb_is_valid(inode)) {
>  		struct bdi_writeback *wb;
>  		bool locked, congested;
> +		unsigned long flags;
>  
> -		wb = unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode, &locked);
> +		wb = unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode, &locked, &flags);

Wouldn't it be better to have a cookie (struct) rather than 2 parameters
and let unlocked_inode_to_wb_end DTRT?

>  		congested = wb_congested(wb, cong_bits);
> -		unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode, locked);
> +		unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode, locked, flags);
>  		return congested;
>  	}
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-06  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <157ed606-4a61-508b-d26a-2f5d638f39bb@meituan.com>
2018-04-02 11:50 ` [RFC] Is it correctly that the usage for spin_{lock|unlock}_irq in clear_page_dirty_for_io Wang Long
2018-04-03 12:03   ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-03 23:12     ` Greg Thelen
2018-04-04  6:31       ` Wang Long
2018-04-06  8:03         ` [PATCH] writeback: safer lock nesting Greg Thelen
2018-04-06  8:07           ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-04-06 18:49             ` Greg Thelen
2018-04-06 18:55               ` [PATCH v2] " Greg Thelen
2018-04-07 18:56                 ` kbuild test robot
2018-04-10  0:59                   ` [PATCH v3] " Greg Thelen
2018-04-10  6:33                     ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-10 20:48                       ` Andrew Morton
2018-04-11  5:50                         ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-10  8:14                     ` Wang Long
2018-04-11  0:40                       ` Greg Thelen
2018-04-10 20:37                     ` Andrew Morton
2018-04-11  1:03                       ` Greg Thelen
2018-04-11  8:46                         ` [PATCH v4] " Greg Thelen
2018-04-10 13:50           ` [PATCH] " Sasha Levin
2018-04-11  2:44             ` Wang Long
2018-04-11  3:13               ` Greg Thelen
2018-04-11  8:45                 ` [PATCH for-4.4] " Greg Thelen
2018-04-11  8:50                   ` Greg Thelen

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