linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 09/27] mm: Handle per-folio private data

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Message-ID: <20210406133733.GH3062550@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 6 Apr 2021 14:37:33 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@...hat.com,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 09/27] mm: Handle per-folio private data

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 07:47:10PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> Add folio_private() and set_folio_private() which mirror page_private()
> and set_page_private() -- ie folio private data is the same as page
> private data.  The only difference is that these return a void *
> instead of an unsigned long, which matches the majority of users.
> 
> Turn attach_page_private() into attach_folio_private() and reimplement
> attach_page_private() as a wrapper.  No filesystem which uses page private
> data currently supports compound pages, so we're free to define the rules.
> attach_page_private() may only be called on a head page; if you want
> to add private data to a tail page, you can call set_page_private()
> directly (and shouldn't increment the page refcount!  That should be
> done when adding private data to the head page / folio).
> 
> This saves 597 bytes of text with the distro-derived config that I'm
> testing due to removing the calls to compound_head() in get_page()
> & put_page().

Except that this seems to be the first patch that uses a field in the
non-struct page union leg in struct folio, which could be trivially
avoided this looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>