linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] intel_th: avoid using deprecated page->mapping, index fields

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Message-ID: <87sep1zw6d.fsf@ubik.fi.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:39:06 +0200
From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, Matthew Wilcox
 <willy@...radead.org>, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
 alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] intel_th: avoid using deprecated page->mapping,
 index fields

Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com> writes:

> Thanks very much! Yeah just keen to get this in as we are moving towards
> removing these fields very soon.

My understanding is that this is a part of larger effort to reduce
struct page to 8 bytes and an optionally dynamically allocated slightly
larger structure, is that correct? Just curious.

> Could you take this in your tree? I think that'd work best.

Sure, will do.

Thanks,
--
Alex