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[4/6] fs: Remove anon_set_page_dirty()

Message ID 20210615162342.1669332-5-willy@infradead.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Further set_page_dirty cleanups | expand

Commit Message

Matthew Wilcox June 15, 2021, 4:23 p.m. UTC
Use __set_page_dirty_no_writeback() instead.  This will set the dirty
bit on the page, which will be used to avoid calling set_page_dirty()
in the future.  It will have no effect on actually writing the page
back, as the pages are not on any LRU lists.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
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 fs/libfs.c | 11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig June 15, 2021, 4:37 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 05:23:40PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> Use __set_page_dirty_no_writeback() instead.  This will set the dirty
> bit on the page, which will be used to avoid calling set_page_dirty()
> in the future.  It will have no effect on actually writing the page
> back, as the pages are not on any LRU lists.

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Patch

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 2d7f086b93d6..3fdd89b156d6 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -1217,19 +1217,10 @@  void kfree_link(void *p)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_link);
 
-/*
- * nop .set_page_dirty method so that people can use .page_mkwrite on
- * anon inodes.
- */
-static int anon_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
-{
-	return 0;
-};
-
 struct inode *alloc_anon_inode(struct super_block *s)
 {
 	static const struct address_space_operations anon_aops = {
-		.set_page_dirty = anon_set_page_dirty,
+		.set_page_dirty = __set_page_dirty_no_writeback,
 	};
 	struct inode *inode = new_inode_pseudo(s);