mm/fs: delete PF_SWAPWRITE
PF_SWAPWRITE has been redundant since v3.2 commit ee72886d ("mm: vmscan: do not writeback filesystem pages in direct reclaim"). Coincidentally, NeilBrown's current patch "remove inode_congested()" deletes may_write_to_inode(), which appeared to be the one function which took notice of PF_SWAPWRITE. But if you study the old logic, and the conditions under which may_write_to_inode() was called, you discover that flag and function have been pointless for a decade. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/75e80e7-742d-e3bd-531-614db8961e4@google.com Signed-off-by:Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.de> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- fs/fs-writeback.c 0 additions, 3 deletionsfs/fs-writeback.c
- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c 1 addition, 1 deletionfs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c
- include/linux/sched.h 0 additions, 1 deletioninclude/linux/sched.h
- mm/migrate.c 0 additions, 7 deletionsmm/migrate.c
- mm/vmscan.c 2 additions, 6 deletionsmm/vmscan.c
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