[PATCH 1/6] fs: remove an outdated comment on mpage_writepages

Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-29T16:11:04Z

mpage_writepages doesn't do any of the page locking itself, so remove
and outdated comment on the locking pattern there.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
fs/mpage.c | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/mpage.c b/fs/mpage.c
index 0f8ae954a57903..910cfe8a60d2e4 100644
--- a/fs/mpage.c
+++ b/fs/mpage.c
@@ -641,14 +641,6 @@ static int __mpage_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
*
* This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
* address_space_operation.
- *
- * If a page is already under I/O, generic_writepages() skips it, even
- * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
- * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync()
- * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
- * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is
- * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
- * existing IO to complete.
*/
int
mpage_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
--
2.35.1