There currently is no way to universally identify and lookup a bdi without holding a reference and pointer to it. This patch adds an non-recycling bdi->id and implements bdi_get_by_id() which looks up bdis by their ids. This will be used by memcg foreign inode flushing. I left bdi_list alone for simplicity and because while rb_tree does support rcu assignment it doesn't seem to guarantee lossless walk when walk is racing aginst tree rebalance operations. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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