Re: [PATCH] mm: Introduce page_size()

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> On Jan 2, 2019, at 6:09 AM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure I agree with that.  It's going to depend on exactly what this
> code is doing; I can definitely see there being places in the VM where we
> care about how this page is currently mapped, but I think those places
> are probably using the wrong interface (get_user_pages()) and should
> really be using an interface which doesn't exist yet (get_user_sg()).

Fair enough; I also agree the VM_BUG_ON for tail pages might be a good safety
measure, at least to see if anyone ends up calling page_size() that way at present.






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