mpage_writepages doesn't do any of the page locking itself, so remove and outdated comment on the locking pattern there.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