linux-kernel - [PATCH 10/16] mm/migration: remove PG_writeback handle in folio_migrate

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Message-ID: <20220304093409.25829-11-linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Date:   Fri, 4 Mar 2022 17:34:03 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
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Subject: [PATCH 10/16] mm/migration: remove PG_writeback handle in folio_migrate_flags

When newfolio reaches here, it's guaranteed that PG_writeback is not set
because caller ensures writeback must have been completed. Remove this
unneeded check and cleanup the relevant comment.

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
---
 mm/migrate.c | 12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index cb970d201147..1de5289a4af0 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -549,18 +549,6 @@ void folio_migrate_flags(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *folio)
 	if (!folio_test_hugetlb(folio))
 		folio->private = NULL;
 
-	/*
-	 * If any waiters have accumulated on the new page then
-	 * wake them up.
-	 */
-	if (folio_test_writeback(newfolio))
-		folio_end_writeback(newfolio);
-
-	/*
-	 * PG_readahead shares the same bit with PG_reclaim.  The above
-	 * end_page_writeback() may clear PG_readahead mistakenly, so set the
-	 * bit after that.
-	 */
 	if (folio_test_readahead(folio))
 		folio_set_readahead(newfolio);
 
-- 
2.23.0