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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 09:57:56 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
	linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 17/19] writeback: update the kerneldoc comment for tag_pages_for_writeback

Don't refer to write_cache_pages, which now is just a wrapper for the
writeback iterator.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 81034d5d72e1f4..2a4b5aee5decd9 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2325,18 +2325,18 @@ void __init page_writeback_init(void)
 }
 
 /**
- * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages
+ * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by writeback
  * @mapping: address space structure to write
  * @start: starting page index
  * @end: ending page index (inclusive)
  *
  * This function scans the page range from @start to @end (inclusive) and tags
- * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is
- * that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use
- * TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback.  This mechanism is
- * used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new
- * dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick
- * so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them).
+ * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag.  The caller
+ * can then use the TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback.
+ * This mechanism is used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process
+ * steadily creating new dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this
+ * function to be quick so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process
+ * can create them).
  */
 void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
 			     pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
-- 
2.39.2


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