linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2 02/19] mm: Convert all PageMovable users to movable

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Date:   Thu, 9 Jun 2022 12:23:58 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-aio@...ck.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        cluster-devel@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/19] mm: Convert all PageMovable users to
 movable_operations

On 08.06.22 17:02, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> These drivers are rather uncomfortably hammered into the
> address_space_operations hole.  They aren't filesystems and don't behave
> like filesystems.  They just need their own movable_operations structure,
> which we can point to directly from page->mapping.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c |  60 +---------------
>  drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c           |  61 +---------------
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c      |  47 +-----------
>  include/linux/balloon_compaction.h   |   6 +-
>  include/linux/fs.h                   |   2 -
>  include/linux/migrate.h              |  26 +++++--
>  include/linux/page-flags.h           |   2 +-
>  include/uapi/linux/magic.h           |   4 --
>  mm/balloon_compaction.c              |  10 ++-
>  mm/compaction.c                      |  29 ++++----
>  mm/migrate.c                         |  24 +++----
>  mm/util.c                            |   4 +-
>  mm/z3fold.c                          |  82 +++------------------
>  mm/zsmalloc.c                        | 102 ++++++---------------------
>  14 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 365 deletions(-)

You probably should have cc'ed the relevant maintainers (including me :P ).

For everything except z3fold.c and zsmalloc.c,

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb