[GIT PULL 01/12 for v7.1] vfs writeback

[Christian Brauner]

Hey Linus,

/* Summary */

The series introduces writeback helper APIs and converts f2fs, gfs2
and nfs to stop accessing writeback internals directly.

/* Testing */

gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0
Debian clang version 19.1.7 (3+b1)

No build failures or warnings were observed.

/* Conflicts */

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No known conflicts.

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The following changes since commit 9702969978695d9a699a1f34771580cdbb153b33:

  Merge tag 'slab-for-7.0-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab (2026-02-16 13:41:38 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs tags/vfs-7.1-rc1.writeback

for you to fetch changes up to 86566865986c4fa1963aace4ef5181501b2974c7:

  Merge patch series "Avoid filesystem references to writeback internals" (2026-02-17 13:25:19 +0100)

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vfs-7.1-rc1.writeback

Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-7.1-rc1.writeback tag.

Thanks!
Christian

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Christian Brauner (1):
      Merge patch series "Avoid filesystem references to writeback internals"

Kundan Kumar (4):
      writeback: prep helpers for dirty-limit and writeback accounting
      f2fs: stop using writeback internals for dirty_exceeded checks
      gfs2: stop using writeback internals for dirty_exceeded check
      nfs: stop using writeback internals for WB_WRITEBACK accounting

 fs/f2fs/node.c              |  4 ++--
 fs/f2fs/segment.h           |  2 +-
 fs/gfs2/super.c             |  2 +-
 fs/nfs/internal.h           |  2 +-
 fs/nfs/write.c              |  3 +--
 include/linux/backing-dev.h | 13 +++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)