fs: remove calls to set and clear the folio error flag

Nobody checks the folio error flag any more, so we can stop setting and
clearing it.  Also remove the documentation suggesting to not bother
setting the error bit.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240807193528.1865100-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 2024-08-07 20:35:25 +01:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent 62e73fd85d
commit 420e05d0de
4 changed files with 2 additions and 15 deletions

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@ -913,8 +913,7 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following members are defined:
stop attempting I/O, it can simply return. The caller will
remove the remaining pages from the address space, unlock them
and decrement the page refcount. Set PageUptodate if the I/O
completes successfully. Setting PageError on any page will be
ignored; simply unlock the page if an I/O error occurs.
completes successfully.
``write_begin``
Called by the generic buffered write code to ask the filesystem

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@ -530,7 +530,6 @@ static void __filemap_fdatawait_range(struct address_space *mapping,
struct folio *folio = fbatch.folios[i];
folio_wait_writeback(folio);
folio_clear_error(folio);
}
folio_batch_release(&fbatch);
cond_resched();
@ -2342,13 +2341,6 @@ static int filemap_read_folio(struct file *file, filler_t filler,
unsigned long pflags;
int error;
/*
* A previous I/O error may have been due to temporary failures,
* eg. multipath errors. PG_error will be set again if read_folio
* fails.
*/
folio_clear_error(folio);
/* Start the actual read. The read will unlock the page. */
if (unlikely(workingset))
psi_memstall_enter(&pflags);

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@ -586,8 +586,6 @@ void folio_migrate_flags(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *folio)
{
int cpupid;
if (folio_test_error(folio))
folio_set_error(newfolio);
if (folio_test_referenced(folio))
folio_set_referenced(newfolio);
if (folio_test_uptodate(folio))

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@ -273,9 +273,7 @@ static void sio_write_complete(struct kiocb *iocb, long ret)
* memory for allocating transmit buffers.
* Mark the page dirty and avoid
* folio_rotate_reclaimable but rate-limit the
* messages but do not flag PageError like
* the normal direct-to-bio case as it could
* be temporary.
* messages.
*/
pr_err_ratelimited("Write error %ld on dio swapfile (%llu)\n",
ret, swap_dev_pos(page_swap_entry(page)));