Re: [PATCH 00/11] Remove aops->writepage

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 01:54:00PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I was preparing for LSFMM and noticed that actually we're almost done
> with the writepage conversion.  This patchset finishes it off.
> Something changed in my test environment and now it crashes before
> even starting a run, so this is only build tested.
> 
> The first five patches (f2fs and vboxsf) are uninteresting.  I'll try
> and get those into linux-next for the imminent merge window.  I think
> the migrate and writeback patches are good, but maybe I've missed
> something.  Then we come to i915 needing to tell shmem to do writeout,
> so I added a module-accessible function to do that.  I also removed
> the setting/clearing of reclaim, which would be easy to bring back if
> it's really needed.  Patch 10 is probably the exciting one where
> pageout() calls swap or shmem directly.  And then patch 11 really just
> removes the op itself and the documentation for it.  I may have
> over-trimmed here, but some of the documentation was so out of date it
> was hard to tell what was worth preserving.
> 
> Anyway, let's see what the bots make of this.  This is against
> next-20250307.

Once you're ready it would be nice if you could resend this based on
mainline (can be today) and then I'll pick it up.

Christian