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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 22:17:00 +0100 From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org> Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 067/138] mm/writeback: Add folio_start_writeback() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org> wrote: > Rename set_page_writeback() to folio_start_writeback() to match > folio_end_writeback(). Do not bother with wrappers that return void; > callers are perfectly capable of ignoring return values. > > Add wrappers for set_page_writeback(), set_page_writeback_keepwrite() and > test_set_page_writeback() for compatibililty with existing filesystems. > The main advantage of this patch is getting the statistics right, > although it does eliminate a couple of calls to compound_head(). > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
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