From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
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Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
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Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>,
Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>,
Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
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Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
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linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] mm: remove newly-unused page wrapper APIs
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 09:45:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d2ab12a-741f-4b93-8f9c-e030cf9b9b90@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261102175605.a0d9caee8279ffb5f6fdf15f@linux-foundation.org>
On 11/3/26 02:56, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:54:05 -0500 Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>> After some folio conversions done last cycle (namely ceph, f2fs, btrfs,
>> fuse, and page_io.c), there are a number of newly-unused page APIs.
>> Let's remove them and update comments as necessary.
>>
>> Patches 1 and 8 are taken from the ceph writeback folio series [1],
>> along with tags.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> 9 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-)
>
> Tal, you obviously haven't been following along ;)
>
>
I would pick this up after giving it a little bit more time for review.
> This development cycle is not the one for cleanups and new features,
> but this one sneaks through!
Yeah, the focus will be on fixes. But smaller stuff like this or some other
things we wanted to get finished for a while that are easy to handle can go in.
All bigger work likely has to wait.
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-03 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-02 22:54 Tal Zussman
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: remove wait_on_page_writeback() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:34 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:42 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:32 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm: remove end_page_writeback() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:36 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:43 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:33 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm: remove clear_page_dirty_for_io() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:39 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:44 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:34 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm: remove attach_page_private() and detach_page_private() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:40 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:44 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:34 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm: remove find_get_page_flags() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:41 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:45 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:35 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 6/8] mm: remove find_lock_page() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:43 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:46 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:36 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 7/8] mm: remove read_cache_page_gfp() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:45 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:46 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:37 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 8/8] mm: remove thp_size() and thp_order() Tal Zussman
2026-11-03 1:48 ` SJ Park
2026-11-03 3:47 ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 8:42 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-03 1:56 ` [PATCH 0/8] mm: remove newly-unused page wrapper APIs Andrew Morton
2026-11-03 8:45 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-11-03 9:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-11-03 9:29 ` Vishal Moola (Fractile)
2026-11-03 9:14 ` Vishal Moola (Fractile)
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