linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: require ->set_page

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Date:   Mon, 14 Jun 2021 12:03:34 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: require ->set_page_dirty to be explicitly wire
 up

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:51:07AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 14-06-21 08:15:12, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Remove the CONFIG_BLOCK default to __set_page_dirty_buffers and just
> > wire that method up for the missing instances.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> Make sense. Did you somehow autogenerate this? If this patch would race
> with addition of new aops struct, we'd get null-ptr-defer out of that so
> maybe providing the script would be better. But other than that the changes
> look good to me. You can add:

No, this was done manually as I audited all instances for actually being
able to dirty pages.