From: "Zi Yan" <ziy@nvidia.com>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Muchun Song" <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
"Lorenzo Stoakes" <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
"Mike Rapoport" <rppt@kernel.org>,
"Suren Baghdasaryan" <surenb@google.com>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>,
"Baolin Wang" <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Nico Pache" <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
"Ryan Roberts" <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
"Dev Jain" <dev.jain@arm.com>, "Barry Song" <baohua@kernel.org>,
"Lance Yang" <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
"Usama Arif" <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
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"Shakeel Butt" <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
"Kairui Song" <kasong@tencent.com>
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"Ilya Dryomov" <idryomov@gmail.com>,
"Alex Markuze" <amarkuze@redhat.com>,
"Viacheslav Dubeyko" <slava@dubeyko.com>,
"Trond Myklebust" <trondmy@kernel.org>,
"Anna Schumaker" <anna@kernel.org>,
"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/14] treewide: adjust comments on PagePrivate and PG_private
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:12:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DLB9TGGY2VXO.OBBZC2WW5EHA@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54a48bae-aa0e-4833-91a2-5b5908356255@kernel.org>
On Wed Sep 9, 2026 at 10:27 AM EDT, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 9/8/26 04:56, Zi Yan wrote:
>> PG_private is going to be deleted. Adjust related comments to refer to
>> page/folio->private instead.
>
> Thinking again, I think this is misleading.
>
> PG_private is defectively already unused for all of these cases, no? In that
Right.
> case it's rather a documentation fix. (could some of that go into patches that
> convert away from PagePrivate, like in the previous patch?)
Will rephase the message and fold comments in previous patches if
possible.
--
Best Regards,
Yan, Zi
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From: "Zi Yan" <ziy@nvidia.com>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Muchun Song" <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
"Lorenzo Stoakes" <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
"Mike Rapoport" <rppt@kernel.org>,
"Suren Baghdasaryan" <surenb@google.com>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>,
"Baolin Wang" <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Nico Pache" <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
"Ryan Roberts" <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
"Dev Jain" <dev.jain@arm.com>, "Barry Song" <baohua@kernel.org>,
"Lance Yang" <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
"Usama Arif" <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
"Gregory Price" <gourry@gourry.net>,
"Ying Huang" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Alistair Popple" <apopple@nvidia.com>,
"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"Qi Zheng" <qi.zheng@linux.dev>,
"Shakeel Butt" <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
"Kairui Song" <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Ilya Dryomov" <idryomov@gmail.com>,
"Alex Markuze" <amarkuze@redhat.com>,
"Viacheslav Dubeyko" <slava@dubeyko.com>,
"Trond Myklebust" <trondmy@kernel.org>,
"Anna Schumaker" <anna@kernel.org>,
"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
"Zhihao Cheng" <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>,
<ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/14] treewide: adjust comments on PagePrivate and PG_private
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:12:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DLB9TGGY2VXO.OBBZC2WW5EHA@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54a48bae-aa0e-4833-91a2-5b5908356255@kernel.org>
On Wed Sep 9, 2026 at 10:27 AM EDT, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 9/8/26 04:56, Zi Yan wrote:
>> PG_private is going to be deleted. Adjust related comments to refer to
>> page/folio->private instead.
>
> Thinking again, I think this is misleading.
>
> PG_private is defectively already unused for all of these cases, no? In that
Right.
> case it's rather a documentation fix. (could some of that go into patches that
> convert away from PagePrivate, like in the previous patch?)
Will rephase the message and fold comments in previous patches if
possible.
--
Best Regards,
Yan, Zi
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Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-08 2:56 [PATCH v3 00/14] Remove PG_private by using page/folio->private checks instead Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [f2fs-dev] " Zi Yan via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-08 2:56 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 01/14] mm/zsmalloc: replace PG_private with pointer comparison Zi Yan
2026-09-08 4:11 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-09-08 15:07 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 15:21 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-09 14:07 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 02/14] perf/ring_buffer: stop using PG_private as AUX page high-order marker Zi Yan
2026-09-08 3:07 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-08 15:09 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 03/14] xen/grant-table: stop setting PG_private on pages for grant mapping Zi Yan
2026-09-08 15:16 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 15:44 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 04/14] fscrypt: stop setting PG_private on bounce page Zi Yan
2026-09-08 15:16 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 05/14] mm/hugetlb: use direct assignment instead of folio_change_private() Zi Yan
2026-09-08 15:26 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 15:28 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 06/14] f2fs: stop using PG_private Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [f2fs-dev] " Zi Yan via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-08 15:47 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-08 15:47 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 18:20 ` [f2fs-dev] " Tal Zussman
2026-09-08 18:20 ` Tal Zussman
2026-09-09 12:48 ` [f2fs-dev] " David Hildenbrand (Arm) via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-09 12:48 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 17:47 ` Tal Zussman
2026-09-09 17:47 ` [f2fs-dev] " Tal Zussman
2026-09-10 7:35 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 7:35 ` [f2fs-dev] " David Hildenbrand (Arm) via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-10 12:21 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-10 12:21 ` [f2fs-dev] " Zi Yan via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-10 21:11 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-10 21:11 ` [f2fs-dev] " Zi Yan via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-13 20:11 ` Tal Zussman
2026-09-13 20:11 ` [f2fs-dev] " Tal Zussman
2026-09-10 2:41 ` Chao Yu
2026-09-10 2:41 ` [f2fs-dev] " Chao Yu via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-10 7:34 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-10 7:34 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 8:43 ` [f2fs-dev] " Chao Yu via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-10 8:43 ` Chao Yu
2026-09-10 9:15 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 9:15 ` [f2fs-dev] " David Hildenbrand (Arm) via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-10 14:15 ` Chao Yu
2026-09-10 14:15 ` [f2fs-dev] " Chao Yu via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 07/14] erofs: mm/pagemap: add readahead_folio_last() to avoid folio->private Zi Yan
2026-09-08 16:04 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 17:05 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-09 14:10 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 08/14] erofs: use folio_attach/detach_private() instead of direct assignment Zi Yan
2026-09-08 16:13 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 17:19 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-09 13:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 2:06 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 09/14] mm/page-flags: check page/folio->private instead of PG_private Zi Yan
2026-09-08 16:56 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 2:08 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 10/14] mm/page-flags: introduce folio_test_fs_private() Zi Yan
2026-09-08 16:59 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 17:22 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 11/14] treewide: remove folio_set/clear_private() Zi Yan
2026-09-08 17:01 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 17:22 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 12/14] treewide: replace PagePrivate() with page_private() Zi Yan
2026-09-09 14:18 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 14:23 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 2:09 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 13/14] treewide: adjust comments on PagePrivate and PG_private Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-09 14:20 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 14:20 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 14:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 14:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 2:12 ` Zi Yan [this message]
2026-09-10 2:12 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-08 2:56 ` [PATCH v3 14/14] mm/page-flags: remove PG_private Zi Yan
2026-09-09 14:31 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 14:48 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-09 14:50 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 14:51 ` Zi Yan
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