Thread (389 messages) 389 messages, 13 authors, 2021-08-21

Re: [PATCH v14 076/138] mm/writeback: Add folio_redirty_for_writepage()

From: Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-12 16:30:54
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

On 7/15/21 5:36 AM, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
Reimplement redirty_page_for_writepage() as a wrapper around
folio_redirty_for_writepage().  Account the number of pages in the
folio, add kernel-doc and move the prototype to writeback.h.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>

Nit:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2558,21 +2558,31 @@ void folio_account_redirty(struct folio *folio)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(folio_account_redirty);
 
-/*
- * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this
- * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via
- * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0
+/**
+ * folio_redirty_for_writepage - Decline to write a dirty folio.
+ * @wbc: The writeback control.
+ * @folio: The folio.
+ *
+ * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write
+ * @folio for some reason, it should call this function, unlock @folio and
+ * return 0.
s/0/false
+ *
+ * Return: True if we redirtied the folio.  False if someone else dirtied
+ * it first.
  */
-int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page)
+bool folio_redirty_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc,
+		struct folio *folio)
 {
-	int ret;
+	bool ret;
+	unsigned nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
+
+	wbc->pages_skipped += nr;
+	ret = filemap_dirty_folio(folio->mapping, folio);
+	folio_account_redirty(folio);
 
-	wbc->pages_skipped++;
-	ret = __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
-	account_page_redirty(page);
 	return ret;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(folio_redirty_for_writepage);
 
 /**
  * folio_mark_dirty - Mark a folio as being modified.
  
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