linux-ext4 - filemap_* writeback interface cleanups

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Message-ID: <20251013025808.4111128-1-hch@lst.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:57:55 +0900
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...nel.org>,
	Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>,
	Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>,
	Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@...debyte.com>,
	Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
	Mark Fasheh <mark@...heh.com>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
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Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
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	Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
	v9fs@...ts.linux.dev,
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Subject: filemap_* writeback interface cleanups

Hi all,

while looking at the filemap writeback code, I think adding
filemap_fdatawrite_wbc ended up being a mistake, as all but the original
btrfs caller should be using better high level interfaces instead.  This
series removes all these, switches btrfs to a more specific interfaces
and also cleans up another too low-level interface.  With this the
writeback_control that is passed to the writeback code is only
initialized in three places, although there are a lot more places in
file system code that never reach the common writeback code.

Diffstat:
 block/bdev.c            |    2 
 fs/9p/vfs_file.c        |   17 +------
 fs/btrfs/defrag.c       |    4 -
 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c    |    3 -
 fs/btrfs/file.c         |    2 
 fs/btrfs/inode.c        |   52 +++++++---------------
 fs/btrfs/reflink.c      |    2 
 fs/btrfs/super.c        |    2 
 fs/ext4/inline.c        |    2 
 fs/ext4/inode.c         |    6 +-
 fs/fat/inode.c          |    2 
 fs/fs-writeback.c       |    6 +-
 fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c     |    2 
 fs/ocfs2/journal.c      |   11 ----
 fs/sync.c               |   11 ++--
 fs/xfs/xfs_file.c       |    2 
 include/linux/pagemap.h |    8 +--
 mm/fadvise.c            |    3 -
 mm/filemap.c            |  109 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
 mm/khugepaged.c         |    2 
 20 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 153 deletions(-)