The quilt patch titled Subject: mm: remove generic_writepages has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-remove-generic_writepages.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Subject: mm: remove generic_writepages Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 06:10:31 -1000 Now that all external callers are gone, just fold it into do_writepages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221229161031.391878-7-hch@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/writeback.h | 2 - mm/page-writeback.c | 53 ++++++++++-------------------------- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/writeback.h~mm-remove-generic_writepages +++ a/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -369,8 +369,6 @@ bool wb_over_bg_thresh(struct bdi_writeb typedef int (*writepage_t)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc, void *data); -int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, - struct writeback_control *wbc); void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end); int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping, --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~mm-remove-generic_writepages +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2526,12 +2526,8 @@ continue_unlock: } EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages); -/* - * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage - * function and set the mapping flags on error - */ -static int __writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc, - void *data) +static int writepage_cb(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc, + void *data) { struct address_space *mapping = data; int ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, wbc); @@ -2539,34 +2535,6 @@ static int __writepage(struct page *page return ret; } -/** - * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them. - * @mapping: address space structure to write - * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write - * - * This is a library function, which implements the writepages() - * address_space_operation. - * - * Return: %0 on success, negative error code otherwise - */ -int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, - struct writeback_control *wbc) -{ - struct blk_plug plug; - int ret; - - /* deal with chardevs and other special file */ - if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage) - return 0; - - blk_start_plug(&plug); - ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping); - blk_finish_plug(&plug); - return ret; -} - -EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages); - int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc) { int ret; @@ -2577,11 +2545,20 @@ int do_writepages(struct address_space * wb = inode_to_wb_wbc(mapping->host, wbc); wb_bandwidth_estimate_start(wb); while (1) { - if (mapping->a_ops->writepages) + if (mapping->a_ops->writepages) { ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc); - else - ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc); - if ((ret != -ENOMEM) || (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL)) + } else if (mapping->a_ops->writepage) { + struct blk_plug plug; + + blk_start_plug(&plug); + ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, writepage_cb, + mapping); + blk_finish_plug(&plug); + } else { + /* deal with chardevs and other special files */ + ret = 0; + } + if (ret != -ENOMEM || wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL) break; /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@xxxxxx are