From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
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Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>,
Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 13/17] md: Use folio_alloc_buffers()
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:23:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c942b90-7fba-4a3f-9701-41501cead240@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260920-remove-pg_private-v5-13-bb68b6a21869@nvidia.com>
On 9/21/26 04:28, Zi Yan wrote:
> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
>
> Remove the last user of alloc_page_buffers(). Use folio_alloc_buffers()
> instead, since alloc_page_buffers() is a wrap over it. Although
> the pages used in md-bitmap are not folios, as they are not mapped
> into userspace nor enter the page cache, but they still have buffer heads
> attached. Cleaning up the code to not use buffer heads is future work.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> [reworded the commit message]
> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-21 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-21 2:27 [PATCH v5 00/17] Remove PG_private by using page/folio->private checks instead Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:27 ` [PATCH v5 01/17] mm/zsmalloc: replace PG_private with pointer comparison Zi Yan
2026-09-21 6:02 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:27 ` [PATCH v5 02/17] perf/ring_buffer: stop using PG_private as AUX page high-order marker Zi Yan
2026-09-21 6:19 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:27 ` [PATCH v5 03/17] xen/grant-table: stop setting PG_private on pages for grant mapping Zi Yan
2026-09-21 7:00 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 04/17] fscrypt: stop setting PG_private on bounce page Zi Yan
2026-09-21 7:03 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 05/17] mm/hugetlb: use direct assignment instead of folio_change_private() Zi Yan
2026-09-21 7:11 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 06/17] f2fs: stop using PG_private Zi Yan
2026-09-21 7:24 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 07/17] f2fs: convert the ->private flag helpers to folio-only Zi Yan
2026-09-21 7:39 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 08/17] erofs: mm/pagemap: add readahead_folio_last() to avoid folio->private Zi Yan
2026-09-21 8:20 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 09/17] erofs: use folio_attach/detach_private() instead of direct assignment Zi Yan
2026-09-21 8:45 ` Lance Yang
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 10/17] mm/page-flags: check page/folio->private instead of PG_private Zi Yan
2026-09-21 9:22 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 11/17] treewide: remove folio_set/clear_private() usage Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 12/17] ceph: replace PagePrivate() with page_private() Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 13/17] md: Use folio_alloc_buffers() Zi Yan
2026-09-21 9:23 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 14/17] md: Use folio APIs in free_page() Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 15/17] md: Remove the last use of page_buffers() Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 16/17] treewide: remove PagePrivate() and PG_private from comments and docs Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:28 ` [PATCH v5 17/17] mm/page-flags: remove PG_private Zi Yan
2026-09-21 2:55 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 15:36 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-21 4:08 ` [PATCH v5 00/17] Remove PG_private by using page/folio->private checks instead Andrew Morton
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