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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/17] writeback: Factor should_writeback_folio() out
 of write_cache_pages()
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 12:22:06PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > +static bool should_writeback_folio(struct address_space *mapping,
> > +		struct writeback_control *wbc, struct folio *folio)
> > +{
> 
> I'd call this function folio_prepare_writeback() or something like that to
> make it clearer that this function is not only about the decision whether
> we want to write folio or not but we also clear the dirty bit &
> writeprotect the folio in page tables.

Fine with me.  I'll wait for willy to chime in if he has a strong
preference.