Re: [PATCH 09/11] mm/ksm: Convert stable_tree_search to use folio
From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed Mar 20 2024 - 11:27:19 EST
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 03:40:45PM +0800, alexs@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> @@ -1820,28 +1820,30 @@ static struct page *stable_tree_search(struct page *page)
> struct rb_node *parent;
> struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node, *stable_node_dup, *stable_node_any;
> struct ksm_stable_node *page_node;
> + struct folio *folio;
>
> - page_node = page_stable_node(page);
> + folio = (struct folio *)page;
These casts make me nervous. Remember that we're heading towards a
future where struct page and struct folio don't point to the same
memory, and part of that will be finding all these casts and removing
them. Please, unless there's a good reason, just use page_folio().