linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 03/13] filemap: assign current->backing_dev_info in generic_perform

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Message-ID: <600202a3-25dd-a404-9051-637fcbc90db6@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 22 May 2023 08:44:15 +0900
From:   Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Xiubo Li <xiubli@...hat.com>,
        Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>,
        Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        "open list:F2FS FILE SYSTEM" <linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
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        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] filemap: assign current->backing_dev_info in
 generic_perform_write

On 5/19/23 18:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Move the assignment to current->backing_dev_info from the callers into
> generic_perform_write to reduce boiler plate code and reduce the scope
> to just around the page dirtying loop.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research