Use __set_page_dirty_no_writeback() instead. This will set the dirty
bit on the page, which will be used to avoid calling set_page_dirty()
in the future. It will have no effect on actually writing the page
back, as the pages are not on any LRU lists.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/libfs.c | 11 +----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 2d7f086b93d6..3fdd89b156d6 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -1217,19 +1217,10 @@ void kfree_link(void *p)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_link);
-/*
- * nop .set_page_dirty method so that people can use .page_mkwrite on
- * anon inodes.
- */
-static int anon_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
-{
- return 0;
-};
-
struct inode *alloc_anon_inode(struct super_block *s)
{
static const struct address_space_operations anon_aops = {
- .set_page_dirty = anon_set_page_dirty,
+ .set_page_dirty = __set_page_dirty_no_writeback,
};
struct inode *inode = new_inode_pseudo(s);
--
2.30.2
