linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: remove page_is_file

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Message-ID: <YeljTuECoPfKn6VW@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:27:42 +0000
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     alexs@...nel.org
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>,
        Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: remove page_is_file_lru function

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 09:10:20PM +0800, alexs@...nel.org wrote:
> From: Alex Shi <alexs@...nel.org>
> 
> This function could be full replaced by folio_is_file_lru, so no reason
> to keep a duplicate function.

This is not a helpful way to do this kind of replacement.

Instead of choosing a function to remove and doing a blind replacement,
choose a call site and convert the whole calling function to use folios.
Once you've removed all callers, you can remove the wrapper function.

Also, a number of changes here will conflict with patches I've already
posted.  Try doing change_pte_range() in mprotect.c to get a feel for
how to convert a function entirely to folios.