On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 09:35:56AM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote: > Thanks for the advice! In case I'm understanding correctly, do you mean > that all other fs/drivers that is using pages versions can safely switch > to folio versions now? If you never allocate a high-order folio pages are identical to folios. So yes, we can do folio based interfaces only, and also use that as an opportunity to convert over the callers. > By the way, my orginal idea was trying to add a new field 'bd_flags' > in block_devcie, and then add a new bit so that bio_check_ro() will > only warn once for each partition. Now that this patchset will be quite > complex, I'll add a new bool field 'bd_ro_warned' to fix the above > problem first, and then add 'bd_flags' once this patchset is done. Yes, please do a minimal version if you can find space where the rmw cycles don't cause damage to neighbouring fields. Or just leave the current set of warnings in if it's too hard.
