On Tue, 2022-07-05 at 14:21 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Jeff Layton <jlay...@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > I don't know here... I think it might be better to just expect that when
> > this function returns an error that the folio has already been unlocked.
> > Doing it this way will mean that you will lock and unlock the folio a
> > second time for no reason.
> 
> I seem to remember there was some reason you wanted the folio unlocking and
> putting.  I guess you need to drop the ref to flush it.
> 
> Would it make sense for ->check_write_begin() to be passed a "struct folio
> **folio" rather than "struct folio *folio" and then the filesystem can clear
> *folio if it disposes of the page?
> 

I'd be OK with that too.
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlay...@kernel.org>

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