[merged mm-stable] mm-remove-wb_writeout_inc.patch removed from -mm tree
Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:24:59 -0700
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The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: remove wb_writeout_inc
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-remove-wb_writeout_inc.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Subject: mm: remove wb_writeout_inc
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:10:52 +0200
Remove this entirely unused but exported function.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
Acked-by: SJ Park <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/backing-dev.h | 2 --
mm/page-writeback.c | 10 ----------
2 files changed, 12 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h~mm-remove-wb_writeout_inc
+++ a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -76,8 +76,6 @@ static inline s64 wb_stat_sum(struct bdi
return percpu_counter_sum_positive(&wb->stat[item]);
}
-extern void wb_writeout_inc(struct bdi_writeback *wb);
-
/*
* maximal error of a stat counter.
*/
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c~mm-remove-wb_writeout_inc
+++ a/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -584,16 +584,6 @@ static inline void __wb_writeout_add(str
wb->bdi->max_prop_frac, nr);
}
-void wb_writeout_inc(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
-{
- unsigned long flags;
-
- local_irq_save(flags);
- __wb_writeout_add(wb, 1);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wb_writeout_inc);
-
/*
* On idle system, we can be called long after we scheduled because we use
* deferred timers so count with missed periods.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
shmem-provide-a-shmem_write_folio-wrapper.patch
mm-swap-introduce-struct-swap_io_ctx.patch
mm-swap-also-use-struct-swap_iocb-for-block-i-o.patch
mm-swap-remove-count_swpout_vm_event.patch
mm-swap-use-swap_ops-to-register-swap-devices-methods.patch
mm-swap-remove-swp_fs_ops.patch
mm-vmstat-add-nrswpinout-counters.patch