linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/15] mm: Remove hpage_nr

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Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 13:35:57 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/15] mm: Remove hpage_nr_pages

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 05:52:10PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
> 
> This function assumed that compound pages were necessarily PMD sized.
> While that may be true for some users, it's not going to be true for
> all users forever, so it's better to remove it and avoid the confusion
> by just using compound_nr() or page_size().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>

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 Kirill A. Shutemov