Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] intel_th: avoid using deprecated page->mapping, index fields
From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Apr 14 2025 - 10:50:46 EST
On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 06:15:14PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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.
-rc2 is now out.