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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: journal start/stop in
 ext3_writeback_writepage()
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:27:48 -0800
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Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I need to teach writepages() to nothing in case of no dirty pages. 
> Is there a easy way like checking a count somewhere than doing all the
> stuff mpage_writepages() is doing to figure this out

	if (!mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY)
		return;