linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/17] memremap: drop private struct page

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Date:   Sun, 17 Dec 2017 10:43:50 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        "linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/17] memremap: drop private struct page_map

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 6:09 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
>
> 'struct page_map' is a private structure of 'struct dev_pagemap' but the
> latter replicates all the same fields as the former so there isn't much
> value in it. Thus drop it in favour of a completely public struct.
>
> This is a clean up in preperation for a more generally useful
> 'devm_memeremap_pages' interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>