From: "Vishal Moola (Fractile)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] mm: remove newly-unused page wrapper APIs
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 09:29:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aumpXjTMlZhV0PSh@C422HJQPQG-Fractile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aumjF5peb2vyuncA@infradead.org>
On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 01:02:15AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 05:56:05PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 9 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-)
> >
> > Tal, you obviously haven't been following along ;)
> >
> >
> > This development cycle is not the one for cleanups and new features,
> > but this one sneaks through!
>
> Given that this is purely dead code removal I'd actually vote for
> fast tracking this into 7.3-rc. Unused API better be removed ASAP
> before people start using them again.
I agree with this sentiment.
Although given how long the folio equivalents have existed, I don't
think it should be too much of an issue. AI is decent at catching
this sort of usage of "legacy" apis. I'm not sure if sashiko checks
though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-03 9:29 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)
2026-11-03 9:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-11-03 9:29 ` Vishal Moola (Fractile) [this message]
2026-11-03 9:14 ` Vishal Moola (Fractile)
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