Re: [PATCH v2 36/46] mm/filemap: Add readahead_folio()

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On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 01:15:41PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> The pointers stored in the page cache are folios, by definition.
> This change comes with a behaviour change -- callers of readahead_folio()
> are no longer required to put the page reference themselves.  This matches
> how readpage works, rather than matching how readpages used to work.

The way this stores and retrieves different but compatible types from the
same xarray is a little nasty.  But I guess we'll have to live with it for
now, so:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>




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