Hi Andrew, On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 04:28:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 11:51:43 +0900 Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > Is it legitimate to be altering the bdi capabilities at this level? Or > > > is this hacky? > > > > Most of device's bdi capability seems to be static but there are few drivers > > which can change capability. For example, BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES > > > > drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c > > drivers/md/raid5.c > > > > I believe it's driver itself advertisement stuff so I hope it's not hack. > > The bdi is per-disk (per-queue). So if zram changes the bdi for a > particular partition then it is accidentally mucking with the other > partitions as well, and it shouldn't do that. At least, I think that's
Aha, I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up. However, I think zram doesn't support partitioning due to lacking of probe feature via blk_register_region. ;-)
