Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 6 authors, 2021-10-18

Re: [PATCH 5/5] brd: Kill usage of page->index

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-10-14 14:28:28
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:00:34PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
As part of the struct page cleanups underway, we want to remove as much
usage of page->mapping and page->index as possible, as frequently they
are known from context.

In the brd code, we're never actually reading from page->index except in
assertions, so references to it can be safely deleted.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <redacted>
More than that ... this is essentially asserting that the radix tree
code works, and we have a test suite to ensure that.

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
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