[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Sunsetting buffer_heads

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Ceterum censeo ...

Having looked at implementing large blocksizes I constantly get bogged down by buffer_heads and being as they are intricately linked into filesystems and mm.

And also everyone seems to have agreed to phase out buffer_heads eventually.

So maybe it's time to start discussing exactly _how_ this could be done.
And LSF/MM seems to be the idea location for it.

So far I've came across the following issues:

- reading superblocks / bread(): maybe convert to ->read_folio() ?
- bh_lru and friends (maybe pointless once bread() has been converted)
- How to handle legacy filesystems still running on buffer_heads

I'm sure this is an incomplete list, and I'm equally sure that several
people have their own ideas what should or need to be done.

So this BOF will be about collecting these ideas and coming up with a design how we can deprecated buffer_heads.

Cheers,

Hannes
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