hostfs: Fix writeback of dirty pages
authorSjoerd Simons <sjoerd@collabora.com>
Fri, 5 Nov 2021 08:10:51 +0000 (09:10 +0100)
committerRichard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Tue, 21 Dec 2021 20:44:27 +0000 (21:44 +0100)
commitce72750f04d68a45ef971c3547fe2d6f9cd4756e
tree3ba3c76130e5f64d6280a394682a1ff69099e4ba
parent9b0da3f22307af693be80f5d3a89dc4c7f360a85
hostfs: Fix writeback of dirty pages

Hostfs was not setting up the backing device information, which means it
uses the noop bdi. The noop bdi does not have the writeback capability
enabled, which in turns means  dirty pages never got written back to
storage.

In other words programs using mmap to write to files on  hostfs never
actually got their data written out...

Fix this by simply setting up the bdi with default settings as all the
required code for writeback is already in place.

Signed-off-by: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Christopher Obbard <chris.obbard@collabora.com>
Tested-by: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <ritesh@collabora.com>
Acked-By: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c