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| author | 2025-07-10 15:33:29 +0200 | |
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| committer | 2025-07-14 10:51:31 +0200 | |
| commit | f4fa7981fa26c664cc540cbce9bcb7ffe02a8912 (patch) | |
| tree | fe356824d657c45085900192b6ff3cd283bb951f /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | iomap: refactor the writeback interface (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-linux-f4fa7981fa26c664cc540cbce9bcb7ffe02a8912.tar.xz wireguard-linux-f4fa7981fa26c664cc540cbce9bcb7ffe02a8912.zip | |
iomap: hide ioends from the generic writeback code
Replace the ioend pointer in iomap_writeback_ctx with a void *wb_ctx
one to facilitate non-block, non-ioend writeback for use. Rename
the submit_ioend method to writeback_submit and make it mandatory so
that the generic writeback code stops seeing ioends and bios.
Co-developed-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250710133343.399917-6-hch@lst.de
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst index f07c8fdb2046..4b93c5f7841a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst @@ -284,8 +284,8 @@ The ``ops`` structure must be specified and is as follows: struct iomap_writeback_ops { int (*writeback_range)(struct iomap_writepage_ctx *wpc, - struct folio *folio, u64 pos, unsigned int len, u64 end_pos); - int (*submit_ioend)(struct iomap_writepage_ctx *wpc, int status); + struct folio *folio, u64 pos, unsigned int len, u64 end_pos); + int (*writeback_submit)(struct iomap_writepage_ctx *wpc, int error); }; The fields are as follows: @@ -316,13 +316,15 @@ The fields are as follows: clean pagecache. This function must be supplied by the filesystem. - - ``submit_ioend``: Allows the file systems to hook into writeback bio - submission. + - ``writeback_submit``: Submit the previous built writeback context. + Block based file systems should use the iomap_ioend_writeback_submit + helper, other file system can implement their own. + File systems can optionall to hook into writeback bio submission. This might include pre-write space accounting updates, or installing a custom ``->bi_end_io`` function for internal purposes, such as deferring the ioend completion to a workqueue to run metadata update transactions from process context before submitting the bio. - This function is optional. + This function must be supplied by the filesystem. Pagecache Writeback Completion ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -336,10 +338,9 @@ If the write failed, it will also set the error bits on the folios and the address space. This can happen in interrupt or process context, depending on the storage device. - Filesystems that need to update internal bookkeeping (e.g. unwritten -extent conversions) should provide a ``->submit_ioend`` function to -set ``struct iomap_end::bio::bi_end_io`` to its own function. +extent conversions) should set their own bi_end_io on the bios +submitted by ``->submit_writeback`` This function should call ``iomap_finish_ioends`` after finishing its own work (e.g. unwritten extent conversion). |
