The patch titled Subject: mm/page-writeback.c: write_cache_pages(): deduplicate identical checks has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-page-writebackc-write_cache_pages-deduplicate-identical-checks.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/page-writeback.c: write_cache_pages(): deduplicate identical checks There used to be a 'retry' label in between the two (identical) checks when first introduced in commit f446daaea9d4 ("mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging"), and later modified/updated in commit 6e6938b6d313 ("writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage"). The label has been removed in commit 64081362e8ff ("mm/page-writeback.c: fix range_cyclic writeback vs writepages deadlock"), and the (identical) checks are now present / performed immediately one after another. So, remove/deduplicate the latter check, moving tag_pages_for_writeback() into the former check before the 'tag' variable assignment, so it's clear that it's not used in this (similarly-named) function call but only later in pagevec_lookup_range_tag(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200218221716.1648-1-mfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page-writeback.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~mm-page-writebackc-write_cache_pages-deduplicate-identical-checks +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2182,12 +2182,12 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_spa if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX) range_whole = 1; } - if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages) + if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages) { + tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end); tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE; - else + } else { tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY; - if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages) - tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end); + } done_index = index; while (!done && (index <= end)) { int i; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are