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

Jens Axboe
2026-03-04T02:42:55Z

On 3/3/26 7:28 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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.

I fully agree, I had the same thought reading this.

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Jens Axboe