[PATCH 1/6] fs: remove an outdated comment on mpage_writepages

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mpage_writepages doesn't do any of the page locking itself, so remove
and outdated comment on the locking pattern there.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
 fs/mpage.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/mpage.c b/fs/mpage.c
index 0f8ae954a57903..910cfe8a60d2e4 100644
--- a/fs/mpage.c
+++ b/fs/mpage.c
@@ -641,14 +641,6 @@ static int __mpage_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
  *
  * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
  * address_space_operation.
- *
- * If a page is already under I/O, generic_writepages() skips it, even
- * if it's dirty.  This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
- * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync().  fsync()
- * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
- * the call was made get new I/O started against them.  If wbc->sync_mode is
- * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
- * existing IO to complete.
  */
 int
 mpage_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
-- 
2.35.1





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