Re: Removing ->dirty_folio

Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:33:15 -0400

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On Mon, 2026-08-24 at 20:08 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I think it's time to remove folio_mark_dirty(), ->dirty_folio() and
> so on.
> 
> This is not how filesystems want to be informed of folio dirtying.
> 
This sounds like I should leave the folio_mark_dirty()
stuff in the get_user_pages() code alone for now, and
leave the shaving of that yak to another day?

In that case, I'll prepare my next version of the
get_user_pages() series.

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