On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 09:26:07PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 08:40:44AM +0100, David Howells wrote: > > From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > > > > Replace BIO_NO_PAGE_REF with a BIO_PAGE_REFFED flag that has the inverted > > meaning is only set when a page reference has been acquired that needs to > > be released by bio_release_pages(). > > What was the motivation for this patch? So that is only is set when we need to release a page, instead telling code to not release it when it otherwise would, where otherwise would is implicit and undocumented and changes in this series.
