linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 4/5] fs: don't call ->writepage from __mpage

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Date:   Fri, 10 Jun 2022 10:00:58 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...nel.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] fs: don't call ->writepage from __mpage_writepage

On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 07:31:19PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 08-06-22 17:04:50, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > All callers of mpage_writepage use block_write_full_page as their
> > ->writepage implementation, so hard code that.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> Similarly here NTFS (fs/ntfs3/) seems to have some non-trivial stuff besides
> block_write_full_page()...

Indeed, ntfs3 will need a prep patch to unwind this mess.  Thanks
for catching this!