Re: [PATCH v2] intel_th: avoid using deprecated page->mapping, index fields

From: Lorenzo Stoakes
Date: Fri Feb 21 2025 - 12:45:28 EST


On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 01:39:06PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Thanks very much! Yeah just keen to get this in as we are moving towards
> > removing these fields very soon.
>
> My understanding is that this is a part of larger effort to reduce
> struct page to 8 bytes and an optionally dynamically allocated slightly
> larger structure, is that correct? Just curious.
>
> > Could you take this in your tree? I think that'd work best.
>
> Sure, will do.

Hi, we don't see it in linux-next yet, did you take this patch? Or just not
sync with -next?

As we'd like to assess the current state of pending 6.15 for page->index,
mapping usage to ensure we 'got' everything.

Thanks, Lorenzo

>
> Thanks,
> --
> Alex