From: Vishal Moola <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] mm: Remove __folio_index
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:24:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aikfR2wWke8lSyab@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260608210618.3437216-7-willy@infradead.org>
On Mon, Jun 08, 2026 at 10:06:16PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> People have been abusing the existence of __folio_index. Since that
> was too subtle for them, unname it entirely. Now we can't use it in the
> FOLIO_MATCH, TABLE_MATCH and ZPDESC_MATCH macros, but that's OK, since
> we don't care whether these fields alias index or some other field.
> Also remove page->share since all users have been converted to use
> folio->share and I'm absolutely certain somebody will start to access
> folio->index through page->share if it's not removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-10 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-08 21:06 [PATCH v2 0/6] Remove __folio_index again Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-06-08 21:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] ntfs: Inline zero_partial_compressed_page() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-06-09 0:18 ` Hyunchul Lee
2026-06-08 21:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] ntfs: Remove use of __folio_index in handle_bounds_compressed_page() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-06-09 0:19 ` Hyunchul Lee
2026-06-09 13:17 ` Usama Arif
2026-06-09 14:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-06-09 15:55 ` Usama Arif
2026-06-08 21:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] ntfs: Use zero_user_segment() " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-06-09 0:20 ` Hyunchul Lee
2026-06-09 13:07 ` Usama Arif
2026-06-08 21:06 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] ntfs: Remove references to page->__folio_index Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-06-09 0:22 ` Hyunchul Lee
2026-06-08 21:06 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] show_page_info: Remove printing of page index Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-06-09 11:59 ` Ye Liu
2026-06-09 18:44 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-10 8:23 ` Vishal Moola
2026-06-08 21:06 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] mm: Remove __folio_index Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-06-09 18:43 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-10 8:24 ` Vishal Moola [this message]
2026-06-09 5:06 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Remove __folio_index again Namjae Jeon
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