On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 04:43:13PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote: > > This looks like a complete mess (why are we setting page->index at page > > fault time?) > > Full story in Alistair's patches, but this a side effect of bypassing > the page allocator for instantiating file-backed mappings. > > > but I no longer care about DAX, and there's no reason to > > let DAX hold us back from removing page->index. > > Question is whether to move ahead with this now and have Alistair > rebase, or push ahead with getting Alistair's series into -next? I am > hoping that Alistair's series can move ahead this cycle, but still > catching up on the latest after the holiday break. The rebase probably isn't that hard, but if we push ahead with my series it's largely unnecessary as it moves this over to the folio anyway. I've just posted a respin on top of next-20241216 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/cover.425da7c4e76c2749d0ad1734f972b06114e02d52.1736221254.git-series.apopple@xxxxxxxxxx/ - Alistair
