linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 01/33] mm: Introduce struct folio

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Date:   Fri, 14 May 2021 12:40:05 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 01/33] mm: Introduce struct folio

On 5/11/21 11:47 PM, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> +/**
> + * folio_page - Return a page from a folio.
> + * @folio: The folio.
> + * @n: The page number to return.
> + *
> + * @n is relative to the start of the folio.  It should be between
> + * 0 and folio_nr_pages(@folio) - 1, but this is not checked for.
> + */
> +#define folio_page(folio, n)	nth_page(&(folio)->page, n)

BTW, would it make sense to have also a folio_page(folio) wrapper? Or is
"&folio->page" used in later patches sufficiently elegant and stable enough for
the future?

>  static __always_inline int PageTail(struct page *page)
>  {
>  	return READ_ONCE(page->compound_head) & 1;
>