Re: [PATCH 0/8] mm: globalize rest_of_page() macro

Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-04T02:28:49Z

On Tue, 3 Mar 2026 20:27:08 -0500 Yury Norov wrote:
> The net/9p networking driver has a handy macro to calculate the
> amount of bytes from a given pointer to the end of page. Move it
> to core/mm, and apply tree-wide. No functional changes intended.
>
> This series was originally introduced as a single patch #07/12 in:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260219181407.290201-1-ynorov@nvidia.com/
>
> Split it for better granularity and submit separately.

I don't get what the motivation is here. Another helper developers
and readers of the code will need to know about just to replace
obvious and easy to comprehend math.