linux-kernel - Re: remove the implicit .set_page

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Date:   Mon, 14 Jun 2021 13:23:22 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        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: remove the implicit .set_page_dirty default

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 08:15:09AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this series cleans up a few lose ends around ->set_page_dirty, most
> importantly removes the default to the buffer head based on if no
> method is wired up.

i have a somewhat similar series in the works ...

https://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache.git/commitdiff/1e7e8c2d82666b55690705d5bbe908e31d437edb
https://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache.git/commitdiff/bf767a4969c0bc6735275ff7457a8082eef4c3fd

... the other patches rather depend on the folio work.