linux-kernel - Re: [WIP RFC PATCH] fs: retire I_WILL

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Message-ID: <20250905-frohe-anbinden-0af1a85f11ab@brauner>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 16:07:54 +0200
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>
Cc: viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, jack@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, josef@...icpanda.com, kernel-team@...com, amir73il@...il.com, 
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [WIP RFC PATCH] fs: retire I_WILL_FREE

> For the life of me I could not figure out if write_inode_now() is legal
> to call in ->evict_inode later and have no means to test, so I devised a

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