We want only pages from given range in ext4_writepages(). Use pagevec_lookup_range_tag() instead of pagevec_lookup_tag() and remove unnecessary code. CC: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> CC: linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 14 ++------------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 31db875bc7a1..69f11233d0d6 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -2619,8 +2619,8 @@ static int mpage_prepare_extent_to_map(struct mpage_da_data *mpd) mpd->map.m_len = 0; mpd->next_page = index; while (index <= end) { - nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, tag, - min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1); + nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_range_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, end, + tag, PAGEVEC_SIZE); if (nr_pages == 0) goto out; @@ -2628,16 +2628,6 @@ static int mpage_prepare_extent_to_map(struct mpage_da_data *mpd) struct page *page = pvec.pages[i]; /* - * At this point, the page may be truncated or - * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or - * even swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file - * mapping. However, page->index will not change - * because we have a reference on the page. - */ - if (page->index > end) - goto out; - - /* * Accumulated enough dirty pages? This doesn't apply * to WB_SYNC_ALL mode. For integrity sync we have to * keep going because someone may be concurrently -- 2.12.3