Re: [PATCH 7/58] new helper: end_writeback()

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On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:16:02PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> Essentially, the minimal variant of ->evict_inode().  It's
> a trimmed-down clear_inode(), sans any fs callbacks.  Once
> it returns we know that no async writeback will be happening;
> every ->evict_inode() instance should do that once and do that
> before doing anything ->write_inode() could interfere with
> (e.g. freeing the on-disk inode).

Naming seems a bit unfortunate - this really sounds like something
in page writeback.  In fact I'd almost bet we had a function with
that name there in the past.

Care to slap an inode_ prefix on it?

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