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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/iomap.h4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst
index c88205132039..4d30723be7fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/iomap/operations.rst
@@ -361,6 +361,9 @@ The fields are as follows:
delalloc reservations to avoid having delalloc reservations for
clean pagecache.
This function must be supplied by the filesystem.
+ If this succeeds, iomap_finish_folio_write() must be called once writeback
+ completes for the range, regardless of whether the writeback succeeded or
+ failed.
- ``writeback_submit``: Submit the previous built writeback context.
Block based file systems should use the iomap_ioend_writeback_submit
diff --git a/include/linux/iomap.h b/include/linux/iomap.h
index 8b1ac08c7474..a5032e456079 100644
--- a/include/linux/iomap.h
+++ b/include/linux/iomap.h
@@ -435,6 +435,10 @@ struct iomap_writeback_ops {
* An existing mapping from a previous call to this method can be reused
* by the file system if it is still valid.
*
+ * If this succeeds, iomap_finish_folio_write() must be called once
+ * writeback completes for the range, regardless of whether the
+ * writeback succeeded or failed.
+ *
* Returns the number of bytes processed or a negative errno.
*/
ssize_t (*writeback_range)(struct iomap_writepage_ctx *wpc,