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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 09/16] mm: Add and use find_lock_entries
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 09:26:34PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> We have three functions (shmem_undo_range(), truncate_inode_pages_range()
> and invalidate_mapping_pages()) which want exactly this function,
> so add it to filemap.c. Before this patch, shmem_undo_range() would
> split any compound page which overlaps either end of the range being
> punched in both the first and second loops through the address space.
> After this patch, that functionality is left for the second loop, which
> is arguably more appropriate since the first loop is supposed to run
> through all the pages quickly, and splitting a page can sleep.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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