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Date:   Mon, 9 Aug 2021 07:29:59 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm/gup: refactor and simplify try_get_page()

On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 04:50:18PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> +/*
> + * This has the same functionality as try_get_compound_head(), just with a
> + * slightly different API.
> + */
>  static inline __must_check bool try_get_page(struct page *page)
>  {
> +	return try_get_compound_head(page, 1) != NULL;

What about removing try_get_page entirely instead?

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