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

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 8:13 AM Kundan Kumar <[email protected]> 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

Sure, that won't hurt.

Reviewed-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]>