On 28/06/10 16.05, Brian Bloniarz wrote:..
..Links to the patch series that Jens mentions are below. I doubt they
apply cleanly to older kernels. Somebody's probably going to need to
take a crack at backporting them eventually (I could try, even), but
I don't know anybody has yet.
Christoph Hellwig (8):
writeback: fix writeback completion notifications
writeback: queue work on stack in writeback_inodes_sb
writeback: enforce s_umount locking in writeback_inodes_sb
writeback: fix writeback_inodes_wb from writeback_inodes_sb
writeback: simplify wakeup_flusher_threads
writeback: simplify and split bdi_start_writeback
writeback: add missing requeue_io in writeback_inodes_wb
writeback: fix pin_sb_for_writeback
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=2c99721ec6a55b2c1e7ba94945bbdae454e11308
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=ebf51611db2cfa33d056b4428f13275f81732fd5
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=de3f848fbc24f71174f3bcc7513b5a3fafb37bac
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=e15e123275b3ca3eeb378136046ab78eab214169
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=dcac2e708d8f8af1a220dd238027af5b4aedfc12
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=8163b53a6bfbfa14ae83f8cdbf536f9c191d3279
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=22e53a2ca88690c711a954d3c652b468a5e94272
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=7eed7cc254e71352e5e2e642c70a9b04cd28cc76
Yes, that's the series.