Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Reimplement __page_cache_alloc as a wrapper around filemap_alloc_folio
> to allow filesystems to be converted at our leisure. Increases
> kernel text size by 133 bytes, mostly in cachefiles_read_backing_file().
> pagecache_get_page() shrinks by 32 bytes, though.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ...
> +static inline struct page *__page_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp)
> +{
> + return &filemap_alloc_folio(gfp, 0)->page;
> +}
Might be worth a note that this *will* return NULL if the allocation fails,
though I guess it's deprecated?
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
