Re: [PATCH 01/11] writeback: Factor out writeback_finish()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Dec 15 2023 - 11:54:41 EST


On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 02:26:39PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > + /* internal fields used by the ->writepages implementation: */
> > + struct folio_batch fbatch;
> > + pgoff_t done_index;
> > + int err;
> > + unsigned range_whole:1; /* entire file */
>
> Do we really need the range_whole member here? It is trivially derived from
> range_start && range_end and used only in one place in writeback_finish().

Yes, as nothing modified range_start and range_end this should be
easily doable.