linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 01/17] device-dax: make pgmap optional for instance creation

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Date:   Thu, 1 Oct 2020 12:12:25 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
        Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@...ia.fr>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>, Jia He <justin.he@....com>,
        Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@...cle.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/17] device-dax: make pgmap optional for instance creation

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:39 AM David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com> wrote:
[..]
> >> include/linux/range.h seems to have this function - why is this here needed?
> >
> > It's there because I add it later in this series. I waited until
> > "mm/memremap_pages: convert to 'struct range'" to make it global as
> > that's the first kernel-wide visible usage of it.
>
> Ah okay - I'd just place it right at the final destination, instead of
> moving fresh code around within a single series.

Yeah, it's looking like this series will all land together so I'll go
ahead and move it.