linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/9] ext2: remove ->writepageo

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Message-ID: <Y3XVU/gdoT5EH6xh@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:31:47 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        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: [PATCH 2/9] ext2: remove ->writepageo

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 07:20:40PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Looking at the code, IMO the write_one_page() looks somewhat premature
> anyway in that place. AFAICS we could handle the writeout using
> filemap_write_and_wait() if we moved it to somewhat later moment. So
> something like attached patch (only basic testing only so far)?

Yes, this looks sensible.  Do you want to queue this one and the
ext2 and udf patches from this series if the testing works fine?

The same transformation should also be done for minix, sysfs and
ufs.  And a bunch of the others are probaby similar as well.