writeback: simplify the loops in write_cache_pages()

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Collapse the two nested loops into one.  This is needed as a step towards
turning this into an iterator.

Note that this drops the "index <= end" check in the previous outer loop
and just relies on filemap_get_folios_tag() to return 0 entries when index
> end.  This actually has a subtle implication when end == -1 because then
the returned index will be -1 as well and thus if there is page present on
index -1, we could be looping indefinitely.  But as the comment in
filemap_get_folios_tag documents this as already broken anyway we should
not worry about it here either.  The fix for that would probably a change
to the filemap_get_folios_tag() calling convention.

[hch@lst.de: update the commit log per Jan]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215063649.2164017-10-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 2024-02-15 07:36:44 +01:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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