The patch titled Subject: omfs: remove ->writepage has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is omfs-remove-writepage.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/omfs-remove-writepage.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Subject: omfs: remove ->writepage Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 11:26:44 +0100 ->writepage is a very inefficient method to write back data, and only used through write_cache_pages or a a fallback when no ->migrate_folio method is present. Set ->migrate_folio to the generic buffer_head based helper, and remove the ->writepage implementation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221202102644.770505-8-hch@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/omfs/file.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/fs/omfs/file.c~omfs-remove-writepage +++ a/fs/omfs/file.c @@ -294,11 +294,6 @@ static void omfs_readahead(struct readah mpage_readahead(rac, omfs_get_block); } -static int omfs_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc) -{ - return block_write_full_page(page, omfs_get_block, wbc); -} - static int omfs_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc) { @@ -375,10 +370,10 @@ const struct address_space_operations om .invalidate_folio = block_invalidate_folio, .read_folio = omfs_read_folio, .readahead = omfs_readahead, - .writepage = omfs_writepage, .writepages = omfs_writepages, .write_begin = omfs_write_begin, .write_end = generic_write_end, .bmap = omfs_bmap, + .migrate_folio = buffer_migrate_folio, }; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@xxxxxx are extfat-remove-writepage.patch fat-remove-writepage.patch hfs-remove-writepage.patch hfsplus-remove-writepage.patch hpfs-remove-writepage.patch jfs-remove-writepage.patch omfs-remove-writepage.patch