Re: [PATCH] ext4: cancel dirty accounting for folios without buffers

[Zhu Jia]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 02:32:27PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 24-06-26 17:52:06, Zhu Jia wrote:
> > The reason I left the tags unchanged in this version is that I was not sure
> > whether it is appropriate for ext4 to open-code xarray tag cleanup directly.
> > 
> > If you think this is the right direction, I can add the helper back and
> > send a v2.
> 
> That was a good judgement! Playing with xarray tags like this in filesystem
> code is certainly not a good thing. For now, I'd leave the xarray tags
> dangling - they will be eventually synced with reality on next writeback
> attempt. If this inconsistency of tags needs to be fixed, the fix belongs
> to the generic code (so that it can be used in other places as well).
> 
> 								Honza

Thanks, makes sense. I'll keep the fix as-is and leave the xarray tags
alone.

Thanks,
Jia