Re: [PATCH block/for-4.5-fixes] writeback: keep superblock pinned during cgroup writeback association switches

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Feb 18 2016 - 07:57:36 EST


On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:12:40PM +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
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> On 02/16/2016 08:24 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-and-tested-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/CAAeU0aNCq7LGODvVGRU-oU_o-6enii5ey0p1c26D1ZzYwkDc5A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Fixes: d10c80955265 ("writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching")
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx #v4.5+
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> Why is this tagged for 4.5+ since the commit in question was merged in 4.2?

Up until 4.5, the whole cgroup v2 interface is hidden behind a devel
flag and cgroup writeback can only be used through cgroup v2.

Thanks.

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tejun