Re: [PATCH 1/8] mm/writeback: fix wb_do_writeback exported unsafely

From: Zhang Yanfei
Date: Fri Jun 14 2013 - 05:41:45 EST


On 06/14/2013 05:31 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 14-06-13 12:29:52, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> Michal Hocko wrote:
>>> On Fri 14-06-13 15:30:34, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>>>> There is just one caller in fs-writeback.c call wb_do_writeback and
>>>> current codes unnecessary export it in header file, this patch fix
>>>> it by changing wb_do_writeback to static function.
>>>
>>> So what?
>>>
>>> Besides that git grep wb_do_writeback tells that
>>> mm/backing-dev.c: wb_do_writeback(me, 0);
>>>
>>> Have you tested this at all?
>>
>> Commit 839a8e8 removes that.
>
> OK, I didn't check the most up-to-date tree. Sorry about this confusion.
> I do not object to cleanups like this but it should be clear they are
> cleanups. "fix wb_do_writeback exported unsafely" sounds like a fix
> rather than a cleanup

Agreed.

>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
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Thanks.
Zhang Yanfei
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