Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 7 authors, 2026-04-02

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

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-03-04 02:28:49
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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/ (local)

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.
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