linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: use private version of page_zero_new

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Message-ID: <CAGudoHHyEQ1swCJkFDicb8hYYSMCXyMUcRVrtWkbeYwSChCmpQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:45:14 +0100
From: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, dave.hansen@...el.com, 
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: use private version of page_zero_new_buffers() for
 data=journal mode

On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 at 11:49, Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > This being your revert I was lowkey hoping you would do the honors.
>
> If it had been a plain revert, I would have - but while the general
> layout of the code is similar, the code around this area has changed
> enough that it really needs to be pretty much entirely "fix up by
> hand" and wants some care and testing.
>
> Which I am unlikely to have time for during this merge window.
>
> So if you don't get around to it, and _if_ I remember this when the
> merge window is open, I might do it in my local tree, but then it will
> end up being too late for this merge window.
>

The to-be-unreverted change was written by Dave (cc'ed).

I had a brief chat with him on irc, he said he is going to submit an
updated patch.

-- 
Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>