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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Mar 31 2025 - 12:16:52 EST


On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 04:47:37PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 01:56:08PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > Greg, as we're late in merge window obviously now, could you roll up into
> > 6.15-rc1? Thanks!
> >
> > This does not require backporting, as this is a critical change for mm
> > moving forward, as page->index,mapping are deprecated and will be entirely
> > removed extremely soon.
>
> "extremely soon" as in "There are four places in the kernel which
> currently use page->index, and three of them are gone once Andrew
> sends his pull requests". So this will be the last user, assuming
> nobody else decides to add a user of page->index in the meantime.

I'll get to it after -rc1 is out, thanks.

greg k-h