]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/kernel/linux.git/commitdiff
ext4: remove mention of PageWriteback
authorMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tue, 26 May 2026 19:08:02 +0000 (20:08 +0100)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:38:48 +0000 (10:38 -0400)
Update a comment to refer to the concept of writeback instead of the
(now obsolete) detail of how it's implemented.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526190805.341676-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/page-io.c

index dc82e7b57e75689b557f2b644831af72651ac031..bc674aa4a6560c08e73e1f3456234fb863e922ee 100644 (file)
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static void ext4_release_io_end(ext4_io_end_t *io_end)
  * written. On IO failure, check if journal abort is needed. Note that
  * we are protected from truncate touching same part of extent tree by the
  * fact that truncate code waits for all DIO to finish (thus exclusion from
- * direct IO is achieved) and also waits for PageWriteback bits. Thus we
+ * direct IO is achieved) and also waits for writeback to complete. Thus we
  * cannot get to ext4_ext_truncate() before all IOs overlapping that range are
  * completed (happens from ext4_free_ioend()).
  */