From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
To: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, chrisl@kernel.org,
kasong@tencent.com, shikemeng@huaweicloud.com, baohua@kernel.org,
youngjun.park@lge.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/swap: rename mm/page_io.c to mm/swap_io.c
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 15:24:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aaaMs-UKi7xbNVXn@MiWiFi-R3L-srv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKEwX=OZwnA4gXGWKMHtby5rTnBAPP3hqFaCEkBKzfFYfaD0VA@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/02/26 at 01:12pm, Nhat Pham wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 2:40 AM Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Codes in mm/page_io.c are only related to swap io, it has
> > nothing to do with other page io.
> >
> > Rename it to avoid confusion.
> >
>
> I wonder if there's any historical context here. But regardless:
I traced it to 1.3.57, its name is mm/page_io.c and included only
function rw_swap_page(). Linus named it at that time. No further
historical context.
commit ecda87c064fea1d7322a357b78b99e04594bc6f3 (tag: 1.3.57)
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Fri Nov 23 15:10:30 2007 -0500
Import 1.3.57
>
> Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-03 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-02 10:40 [PATCH 0/3] mm/swap: use swap_ops to register swap device's methods Baoquan He
2026-03-02 10:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/swap: rename mm/page_io.c to mm/swap_io.c Baoquan He
2026-03-02 10:56 ` Barry Song
2026-03-02 13:25 ` Baoquan He
2026-03-02 21:12 ` Nhat Pham
2026-03-03 7:24 ` Baoquan He [this message]
2026-03-04 6:40 ` Kairui Song
2026-03-02 10:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/swap: use swap_ops to register swap device's methods Baoquan He
2026-03-02 11:11 ` Barry Song
2026-03-02 14:47 ` Baoquan He
2026-03-02 19:28 ` Chris Li
2026-03-02 12:20 ` YoungJun Park
2026-03-02 14:09 ` YoungJun Park
2026-03-02 19:35 ` Chris Li
2026-03-03 7:14 ` Baoquan He
2026-03-02 14:53 ` Usama Arif
2026-03-03 10:41 ` Baoquan He
2026-03-02 21:21 ` Nhat Pham
2026-03-03 3:01 ` Baoquan He
2026-03-02 10:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm/swap_io.c: rename swap_writepage_* to swap_write_folio_* Baoquan He
2026-03-02 11:28 ` Barry Song
2026-03-02 21:11 ` Nhat Pham
2026-03-02 14:43 ` [PATCH 0/3] mm/swap: use swap_ops to register swap device's methods YoungJun Park
2026-03-05 5:18 ` Baoquan He
2026-03-05 8:09 ` YoungJun Park
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