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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] libceph: use iov_iter_extract_pages() in
 ceph_msg_data_iter_next()
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 05:07:05PM +0300, Tal Zussman wrote:
> I'm perfectly happy to do that. I just want the PageWriteback() gone
> and wanted to try to fix it properly rather than just delete the BUG()
> or throw in a page_folio(). But seems like "properly" in this case may
> be a deeper hole than I want to jump in to right now ;)

I'd vote for just removing it and unraveling that rest slowly.