linux-ext4 - Re: start removing writepage instances

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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:39:01 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, 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

Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:

> The VM doesn't need or want ->writepage for writeback and is fine with
> just having ->writepages as long as ->migrate_folio is implemented.

Yay! :-)

David