RE: [RFC 04/10] fs/dax: Don't track page mapping/index

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Alistair Popple wrote:
> The page->mapping and page->index fields are normally used by the
> pagecache and rmap for looking up virtual mappings of pages. FS DAX
> implements it's own kind of page cache and rmap look ups so these
> fields are unnecessary. They are currently only used to detect
> error/warning conditions which should never occur.
> 
> A future change will change the way shared mappings are detected by
> doing normal page reference counting instead, so remove the
> unnecessary checks.

Ignore my comment on patch3, I fumble fingered the reply, it was meant
to for this patch. I.e. that "future change" should just be present
before removing old logic.




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