Re: [PATCH v2 24/46] mm/writeback: Add __folio_end_writeback()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jun 23 2021 - 05:17:18 EST


On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 01:15:29PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> test_clear_page_writeback() is actually an mm-internal function, although
> it's named as if it's a pagecache function. Move it to mm/internal.h,
> rename it to __folio_end_writeback() and change the return type to bool.
>
> The conversion from page to folio is mostly about accounting the number
> of pages being written back, although it does eliminate a couple of
> calls to compound_head().

While this looks good, I think the whole abstraction is wrong. I think
test_clear_page_writeback should just be merged into it's only caller.

But if that is somehow not on the table this change looks ok:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>