linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] filemap: convert page_endio to folio

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Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2023 07:46:07 -0700
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>
Cc:     hubcap@...ibond.com, senozhatsky@...omium.org, martin@...ibond.com,
        willy@...radead.org, minchan@...nel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] filemap: convert page_endio to folio_endio

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 01:32:31PM +0100, Pankaj Raghav wrote:
> page_endio() already works on folios by converting a page in to a folio as
> the first step. Convert page_endio to folio_endio by taking a folio as the
> first parameter.
> 
> Instead of doing a page to folio conversion in the page_endio()
> function, the consumers of this API do this conversion and call the
> folio_endio() function in this patch.
> The following patches will convert the consumers of this API to use native
> folio functions to pass to folio_endio().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>

Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>

Perhaps the hard thing is what tree would this go through?

  Luis