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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>
Linux kernel
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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.