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

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Message-ID: <3a98bce9-7508-4ab5-b2c0-2493d2256c53@lucifer.local>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:59:36 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] intel_th: avoid using deprecated page->mapping, index
 fields

+cc Greg

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 09:36:40AM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 01:39:06PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Hi, this doesn't appear to be in linux-next yet.  Could you confirm it's
> > scheduled to hit the next merge window?
>
> Yes, I'll send it to Greg once -rc1 is tagged.

Right, is this ultimately handled in Greg's PR? Did you not send to him
ready for the merge window?

Or did you? I'm confused.

We do really need this merged for 6.15, can we make sure this actually
lands? You did confirm it'd go in 2 months ago, and the patch was sent 4
months ago, and we have been chasing this repeatedly.

For reference, patch is [0].

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241203080001.12341-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com/

>
> Regards,
> --
> Alex

Thanks, Lorenzo