The patch titled Subject: buffer: use b_folio in mark_buffer_dirty() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is buffer-use-b_folio-in-mark_buffer_dirty.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/buffer-use-b_folio-in-mark_buffer_dirty.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: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: buffer: use b_folio in mark_buffer_dirty() Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:43:57 +0000 Removes about four calls to compound_head(). Two of them are inline which removes 132 bytes from the kernel text. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221215214402.3522366-8-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/buffer.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/fs/buffer.c~buffer-use-b_folio-in-mark_buffer_dirty +++ a/fs/buffer.c @@ -1095,16 +1095,16 @@ void mark_buffer_dirty(struct buffer_hea } if (!test_set_buffer_dirty(bh)) { - struct page *page = bh->b_page; + struct folio *folio = bh->b_folio; struct address_space *mapping = NULL; - lock_page_memcg(page); - if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) { - mapping = page_mapping(page); + folio_memcg_lock(folio); + if (!folio_test_set_dirty(folio)) { + mapping = folio->mapping; if (mapping) - __set_page_dirty(page, mapping, 0); + __folio_mark_dirty(folio, mapping, 0); } - unlock_page_memcg(page); + folio_memcg_unlock(folio); if (mapping) __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are buffer-add-b_folio-as-an-alias-of-b_page.patch buffer-replace-obvious-uses-of-b_page-with-b_folio.patch buffer-use-b_folio-in-touch_buffer.patch buffer-use-b_folio-in-end_buffer_async_read.patch buffer-use-b_folio-in-end_buffer_async_write.patch page_io-remove-buffer_head-include.patch buffer-use-b_folio-in-mark_buffer_dirty.patch gfs2-replace-obvious-uses-of-b_page-with-b_folio.patch jbd2-replace-obvious-uses-of-b_page-with-b_folio.patch nilfs2-replace-obvious-uses-of-b_page-with-b_folio.patch reiserfs-replace-obvious-uses-of-b_page-with-b_folio.patch mpage-use-b_folio-in-do_mpage_readpage.patch