Re: [PATCH v3 06/14] f2fs: stop using PG_private

["David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 9/9/26 19:47, Tal Zussman wrote:
> On 9/9/26 3:48 PM, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>> On 9/8/26 20:20, Tal Zussman wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a WIP series of ~30 patches converting much of the remaining page
>>> users in f2fs (including the below) to folios. Still have to do some
>>> testing and clean it up, but hoping to send it out in the next couple of
>>> weeks (in the hopes of eliminating some more folio_compat.c functions by
>>> next cycle...)
>>
>> Indeed best to wait a bit before flooding -mm even more, it's rather a lot at
>> this point.
>>
>> In the context of this series, it would be great if you could review whether the
>> diff I proposed would get the job done, thanks!
>>
> 
> What it changes looks good, but I would go a little further.

Thanks!

> 
> There are only two more users of page_private_gcing(), which pass fio->page.
> Those could easily be converted to folio_test_f2fs_gcing() by passing fio->folio,
> which is in a union with fio->page. That would let you delete the
> page_private_##name() implementation in PAGE_PRIVATE_GET_FUNC() as well and just
> remove the entire family. At that point PAGE_PRIVATE_{GET,SET,CLEAR}_FUNC()
> could be renamed to something like F2FS_FOLIO_PRIVATE_{GET,SET,CLEAR}_FUNC() and
> all of this cruft is gone and folio-based, with no more f2fs use of page_private()
> either.
> 
> The renaming could be done as a later step, but I would get rid of the accessors
> as well in one swoop.

Yes, either as part of the same patch or as a separate patch. Zi, can you take
care of that? Thanks!

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Cheers,

David