Re: Testing for dirty buffers on a block device

[Alan Stern]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Jens Axboe wrote:

> > > But if you wanted, I guess the only way would be to lookup
> > > dirty/writeback pages on the bdev inode mapping. For that you'd need the
> > > bdev, not the gendisk or the queue though.
> > 
> > I can get the bdev from the gendisk by calling bdget_disk() with a 
> > partition number of 0, right?  What would the next step be?  Would this 
> > check for dirty pages associated with any of the partitions or would it 
> > only look at pages associated with the inode for the entire disk?
> 
> It would cover the entire bdev.

Okay, so once I've got the bdev, how do I look up the dirty/writeback 
pages on the inode mapping?

Alan Stern

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