linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm/highmem: Lift memcpy_[to|from]

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Date:   Mon, 8 Feb 2021 04:34:20 +0000
From:   Chaitanya Kulkarni <Chaitanya.Kulkarni@....com>
To:     Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "clm@...com" <clm@...com>,
        "josef@...icpanda.com" <josef@...icpanda.com>,
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        Boris Pismenny <borisp@...lanox.com>,
        Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        "hch@...radead.org" <hch@...radead.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm/highmem: Lift memcpy_[to|from]_page to core

On 2/7/21 19:13, Ira Weiny wrote:
>>> +static inline void memcpy_from_page(char *to, struct page *page, size_t offset, size_t len)
>> How about following ?
>> static inline void memcpy_from_page(char *to, struct page *page, size_t
>> offset,
>>                                     size_t len)  
> It is an easy change and It is up to Andrew.  But I thought we were making the
> line length limit longer now.
>
> Ira
>
True, not sure what is the right thing going forward especially when new
changes
are mixed with the old ones, I'll leave it to the maintainer to decide.