Re: [patch 1/8] mm: bdi: export bdi_writeout_inc()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 18 2008 - 07:28:03 EST


On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 20:19 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> plain text document attachment (export_bdi_writeout_inc.patch)
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
>
> Fuse needs this for writable mmap support.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/backing-dev.h | 2 ++
> mm/page-writeback.c | 10 ++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux/include/linux/backing-dev.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/include/linux/backing-dev.h 2008-03-17 18:24:13.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/include/linux/backing-dev.h 2008-03-17 18:24:36.000000000 +0100
> @@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ static inline s64 bdi_stat_sum(struct ba
> return sum;
> }
>
> +extern void bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
> +
> /*
> * maximal error of a stat counter.
> */
> Index: linux/mm/page-writeback.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/mm/page-writeback.c 2008-03-17 18:24:13.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/mm/page-writeback.c 2008-03-17 18:24:36.000000000 +0100
> @@ -168,6 +168,16 @@ static inline void __bdi_writeout_inc(st
> bdi->max_prop_frac);
> }
>
> +void bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
> +{
> + unsigned long flags;
> +
> + local_irq_save(flags);
> + __bdi_writeout_inc(bdi);
> + local_irq_restore(flags);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_writeout_inc);
> +

May I ask to make this a _GPL export, please?

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