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

Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.gfs2,net.sourceforge.lists.linux-f2fs-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-nfs
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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/[email protected]/
> 
> 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 <[email protected]>
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