Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] fs: Move swap_[de]activate to file_operations

[David Sterba]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 04:42:44PM -0800, ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> swap_activate() and swap_deactivate() have nothing to do with address
> spaces.  We want to be able to change the address space operations on
> the fly to allow changing inode flags dynamically.
> 
> Switching address space operations can be difficult to do reliably.[1]
> Therefore, to simplify switching address space operations we reduce the
> number of functions in those operations by moving swap_activate() and
> swap_deactivate() out of the address space operations.
> 
> No functionality is changed with this patch.
> 
> This has been tested with XFS but not NFS, f2fs, or btrfs.
> 
> Also note we move some functions to facilitate compilation.  But there
> are no functional changes are contained within those diffs.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/11/11/572
> 
> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> Changes from V0:
> 	Update cover letter.
> 	fix btrfs as per Andrew's comments
> 	change xfs_iomap_swapfile_activate() to xfs_file_swap_activate()
> 
> Changes from V1:
> 	Update recipients list
> 
> 
>  fs/btrfs/file.c    | 341 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  fs/btrfs/inode.c   | 340 --------------------------------------------

For the btrfs part

Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>

There's going to be a minor conflict with current 5.5 queue, the
resolution is simple rename of btrfs_block_group_cache to btrfs_block_group.