Re: [PATCH 0/8] Folio Prequel patches

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On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 06:12:45PM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:55:41 +0100
> "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > These patches have all been posted before and not picked up yet.  I've
> > built the folio patches on top of them; while they are not necessarily
> > prerequisites in the conceptual sense, I'm not convinced that the
> > folio patches will build without them.  The nth_page patch is purely
> > an efficiency question, while patch 5 ("Make compound_head
> > const-preserving") is required for the current implementation of
> > page_folio().  Patch 8 ("Fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems")
> > is required for the struct folio layout to match struct page layout
> > on said 32-bit systems (arm, mips, ppc).
> > 
> > They are on top of next-20210430
> > 
> 
> I'm running them since a couple days on an arm64 machine which uses the
> page_pool API. No issues so far.

Thanks!  Andrew picked up the first seven of these patches last night,
and I resent the eighth one today:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210510153211.1504886-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/




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