From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 17/17] writeback: update the kerneldoc comment for tag_pages_for_writeback
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:35:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231218153553.807799-18-hch@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231218153553.807799-1-hch@lst.de>
Don't refer to write_cache_pages, which now is just a wrapper for the
writeback iterator.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
mm/page-writeback.c | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index d3c2c78e0c67ce..bc69044fd063e8 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2325,18 +2325,18 @@ void __init page_writeback_init(void)
}
/**
- * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages
+ * tag_pages_for_writeback - tag pages to be written by writeback
* @mapping: address space structure to write
* @start: starting page index
* @end: ending page index (inclusive)
*
* This function scans the page range from @start to @end (inclusive) and tags
- * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is
- * that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use
- * TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback. This mechanism is
- * used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new
- * dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick
- * so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them).
+ * all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The caller
+ * can then use the TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback.
+ * This mechanism is used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process
+ * steadily creating new dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this
+ * function to be quick so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process
+ * can create them).
*/
void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
--
2.39.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-18 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-18 15:35 Convert write_cache_pages() to an iterator v3 Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 01/17] writeback: fix done_index when hitting the wbc->nr_to_write Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-19 17:33 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 02/17] writeback: also update wbc->nr_to_write on writeback failure Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-19 17:36 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 03/17] writeback: rework the loop termination condition in write_cache_pages Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-19 18:27 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 04/17] writeback: only update ->writeback_index for range_cyclic writeback Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 10:59 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 05/17] writeback: remove a duplicate prototype for tag_pages_for_writeback Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 10:59 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 06/17] writeback: Factor out writeback_finish() Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 11:09 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 07/17] writeback: Factor writeback_get_batch() out of write_cache_pages() Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 11:17 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-21 12:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 12:30 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 08/17] writeback: Factor should_writeback_folio() " Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 11:22 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-21 12:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 09/17] writeback: Simplify the loops in write_cache_pages() Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 11:24 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 10/17] pagevec: Add ability to iterate a queue Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 11:26 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 11/17] writeback: Use the folio_batch queue iterator Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 11:28 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 12/17] writeback: Factor writeback_iter_init() out of write_cache_pages() Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 11:29 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 13/17] writeback: Factor writeback_get_folio() " Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 11:41 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-21 12:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 12:31 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 14/17] writeback: Factor writeback_iter_next() " Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 11:46 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 15/17] writeback: Add for_each_writeback_folio() Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 11:51 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-21 12:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 12:49 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` [PATCH 16/17] writeback: Remove a use of write_cache_pages() from do_writepages() Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-21 11:53 ` Jan Kara
2023-12-18 15:35 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-12-21 11:54 ` [PATCH 17/17] writeback: update the kerneldoc comment for tag_pages_for_writeback Jan Kara
2023-12-18 21:00 ` Convert write_cache_pages() to an iterator v3 Dave Chinner
2023-12-22 15:08 Convert write_cache_pages() to an iterator v4 Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-22 15:08 ` [PATCH 17/17] writeback: update the kerneldoc comment for tag_pages_for_writeback Christoph Hellwig
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