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

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Message-ID: <87frityadj.fsf@ubik.fi.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:36:40 +0300
From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Lorenzo Stoakes
 <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
Cc: alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] intel_th: avoid using deprecated page->mapping,
 index fields

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.

Regards,
--
Alex