Catch filesystems lacking s_bdi

noop_backing_dev_info is used only as a flag to mark filesystems that
don't have any backing store, like tmpfs, procfs, spufs, etc.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>

Changed the BUG_ON() to a WARN_ON(). Note that adding dirty inodes
to the noop_backing_dev_info is not legal and will not result in
them being flushed, but we already catch this condition in
__mark_inode_dirty() when checking for a registered bdi.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index dbda4707f593..707d0dc6da0f 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ struct backing_dev_info default_backing_dev_info = {
 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(default_backing_dev_info);
 
+struct backing_dev_info noop_backing_dev_info = {
+        .name           = "noop",
+};
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(noop_backing_dev_info);
+
 static struct class *bdi_class;
 
 /*