linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 10/25] fs: Introduce i_blocks_per

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Message-ID: <20200213160705.GO7778@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:07:05 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/25] fs: Introduce i_blocks_per_page

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 06:40:10PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 08:18:30PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
> > 
> > This helper is useful for both large pages in the page cache and for
> > supporting block size larger than page size.  Convert some example
> > users (we have a few different ways of writing this idiom).
> 
> Maybe we should list what was converted and what wasn't. Like it's
> important to know that fs/buffer.c is not covered.

I don't know what could have been converted and wasn't ... I just went
looking for a few places that use idioms like this.  Happy to add some
more examples.