linux-ext4 - Re: start removing writepage instances

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Message-ID: <Y3KlE4+SFh0jith3@cmpxchg.org>
Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:29:07 -0500
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>,
        Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@...sung.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
        Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
        Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...nel.org>,
        Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-karma-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: start removing writepage instances

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 05:28:53PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The VM doesn't need or want ->writepage for writeback and is fine with
> just having ->writepages as long as ->migrate_folio is implemented.
> 
> This series removes all ->writepage instances that use
> block_write_full_page directly and also have a plain mpage_writepages
> based ->writepages.

The series looks good from the MM side.

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>