+ mm-page-flags-remove-folio_start_writeback_keepwrite.patch added to mm-unstable branch

+ mm-page-flags-remove-folio_start_writeback_keepwrite.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/page-flags: remove folio_start_writeback_keepwrite()
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     mm-page-flags-remove-folio_start_writeback_keepwrite.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-page-flags-remove-folio_start_writeback_keepwrite.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Subject: mm/page-flags: remove folio_start_writeback_keepwrite()
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:22:30 -0700

Commit cd57b77197a4 ("ext4: Convert ext4_bio_write_page() to use a folio)
removed set_page_writeback_keepwrite() which was the last/only caller of
folio_start_writeback_keepwrite().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250722182230.2114587-1-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/page-flags.h |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h~mm-page-flags-remove-folio_start_writeback_keepwrite
+++ a/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -837,8 +837,6 @@ void set_page_writeback(struct page *pag
 
 #define folio_start_writeback(folio)			\
 	__folio_start_writeback(folio, false)
-#define folio_start_writeback_keepwrite(folio)	\
-	__folio_start_writeback(folio, true)
 
 static __always_inline bool folio_test_head(const struct folio *folio)
 {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from joannelkoong@gmail.com are

mm-page-flags-remove-folio_start_writeback_keepwrite.patch