Re: [PATCH 09/11] md-bitmap: don't use ->index for pages backing the bitmap file

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On 6/15/23 08:48, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
The md driver allocates pages for storing the bitmap file data, which
are not page cache pages, and then stores the page granularity file
offset in page->index, which is a field that isn't really valid except
for page cache pages.

Hmm. Willy told me that ->index is free to use if you're not dealing with page cache pages (brd does the same thing).

Cheers,

Hannes




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