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Patch series "Add folio_zero_tail() and folio_fill_tail()". I'm trying to make it easier for filesystems with tailpacking / stuffing / inline data to use folios. The primary function here is folio_fill_tail(). You give it a pointer to memory where the data currently is, and it takes care of copying it into the folio at that offset. That works for gfs2 & iomap. Then There's Ext4. Rather than gin up some kind of specialist "Here's a two pointers to two blocks of memory" routine, just let it do its current thing, and let it call folio_zero_tail(), which is also called by folio_fill_tail(). Other filesystems can be converted later; these ones seemed like good examples as they're already partly or completely converted to folios. This patch (of 3): Instead of unmapping the folio after copying the data to it, then mapping it again to zero the tail, provide folio_zero_tail() to zero the tail of an already-mapped folio. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kerneldoc argument ordering] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231107212643.3490372-1-willy@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231107212643.3490372-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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