linux-ext4 - Re: start removing writepage instances

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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:41:20 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@...il.com>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, 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: start removing writepage instances

Also ->writepage() is called with the page already locked, which is a problem
if you need to write out a number of surrounding pages with it.

David