[PATCH 5/6] fs: Remove noop_set_page_dirty()

From: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Date: Tue Jun 15 2021 - 12:27:15 EST


Use __set_page_dirty_no_writeback() instead. This will set the dirty
bit on the page, which will be used to avoid calling set_page_dirty()
in the future. It will have no effect on actually writing the page
back, as the pages are not on any LRU lists.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dax/device.c | 2 +-
fs/ext2/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/fuse/dax.c | 2 +-
fs/libfs.c | 16 ----------------
fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 2 +-
include/linux/fs.h | 1 -
7 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dax/device.c b/drivers/dax/device.c
index db92573c94e8..dd8222a42808 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/device.c
+++ b/drivers/dax/device.c
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ static unsigned long dax_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp,
}

static const struct address_space_operations dev_dax_aops = {
- .set_page_dirty = noop_set_page_dirty,
+ .set_page_dirty = __set_page_dirty_no_writeback,
.invalidatepage = noop_invalidatepage,
};

diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
index bf41f579ed3e..dadb121beb22 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -992,7 +992,7 @@ const struct address_space_operations ext2_nobh_aops = {
static const struct address_space_operations ext2_dax_aops = {
.writepages = ext2_dax_writepages,
.direct_IO = noop_direct_IO,
- .set_page_dirty = noop_set_page_dirty,
+ .set_page_dirty = __set_page_dirty_no_writeback,
.invalidatepage = noop_invalidatepage,
};

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index f44800361a38..6dd58c14ef1f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3701,7 +3701,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations ext4_da_aops = {
static const struct address_space_operations ext4_dax_aops = {
.writepages = ext4_dax_writepages,
.direct_IO = noop_direct_IO,
- .set_page_dirty = noop_set_page_dirty,
+ .set_page_dirty = __set_page_dirty_no_writeback,
.bmap = ext4_bmap,
.invalidatepage = noop_invalidatepage,
.swap_activate = ext4_iomap_swap_activate,
diff --git a/fs/fuse/dax.c b/fs/fuse/dax.c
index ff99ab2a3c43..515ad0895345 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dax.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dax.c
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ bool fuse_dax_inode_alloc(struct super_block *sb, struct fuse_inode *fi)
static const struct address_space_operations fuse_dax_file_aops = {
.writepages = fuse_dax_writepages,
.direct_IO = noop_direct_IO,
- .set_page_dirty = noop_set_page_dirty,
+ .set_page_dirty = __set_page_dirty_no_writeback,
.invalidatepage = noop_invalidatepage,
};

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 3fdd89b156d6..51b4de3b3447 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -1171,22 +1171,6 @@ int noop_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(noop_fsync);

-int noop_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
-{
- /*
- * Unlike __set_page_dirty_no_writeback that handles dirty page
- * tracking in the page object, dax does all dirty tracking in
- * the inode address_space in response to mkwrite faults. In the
- * dax case we only need to worry about potentially dirty CPU
- * caches, not dirty page cache pages to write back.
- *
- * This callback is defined to prevent fallback to
- * __set_page_dirty_buffers() in set_page_dirty().
- */
- return 0;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(noop_set_page_dirty);
-
void noop_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned int offset,
unsigned int length)
{
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
index a335d79dcff8..cb4e0fcf4c76 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ const struct address_space_operations xfs_address_space_operations = {
const struct address_space_operations xfs_dax_aops = {
.writepages = xfs_dax_writepages,
.direct_IO = noop_direct_IO,
- .set_page_dirty = noop_set_page_dirty,
+ .set_page_dirty = __set_page_dirty_no_writeback,
.invalidatepage = noop_invalidatepage,
.swap_activate = xfs_iomap_swapfile_activate,
};
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index ef5c1d93994c..9dfd1e15b0e1 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3416,7 +3416,6 @@ extern int simple_rename(struct user_namespace *, struct inode *,
extern void simple_recursive_removal(struct dentry *,
void (*callback)(struct dentry *));
extern int noop_fsync(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int);
-extern int noop_set_page_dirty(struct page *page);
extern void noop_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned int offset,
unsigned int length);
extern ssize_t noop_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter);
--
2.30.2