linux-kernel - Re: cleanup AOP_WRITEPAGE

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Message-ID: <43d55ab4-c490-4f3d-8331-dc47f427d06d@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 15:38:20 +0800
From: Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Cc: chao@...nel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cleanup AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE use in f2fs

On 5/5/25 17:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this almost entirely cleans up usage of AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE in f2fs.
> 
> f2fs_sync_node_pages can still return it in a way that is not handled
> by any caller and eventually is propagated to userspace.  This does look
> like a bug and needs attention by someone who actually knows the code.

Oh, I guess this is a bug, thanks for catching this.

Anyway, let me fix this based on your patchset.

Thanks,

> 
> Diffstat:
>  checkpoint.c |   22 +++++++++++-----------
>  compress.c   |    5 +----
>  data.c       |   13 ++++---------
>  node.c       |   43 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)