Re: [PATCH 0/4] Avoid filesystem references to writeback internals

From: Jeff Layton

Date: Wed Feb 11 2026 - 08:32:17 EST


On Wed, 2026-02-11 at 12:30 +0530, Kundan Kumar wrote:
> The series introduces writeback helper APIs and converts f2fs, gfs2
> and nfs to stop accessing writeback internals directly.
>
> As suggested by Christoph [1], filesystem code that directly accesses
> writeback internals is split out:
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251015072912.GA11294@xxxxxx/
>
> No functional changes intended
>
> 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 | 4 ++--
> include/linux/backing-dev.h | 11 +++++++++++
> 6 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 05f7e89ab9731565d8a62e3b5d1ec206485eeb0b

Seems sensible.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>