The quilt patch titled Subject: buffer: add get_nth_bh() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was buffer-add-get_nth_bh.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: buffer: add get_nth_bh() Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 21:10:52 +0100 Extract this useful helper from nilfs_page_get_nth_block() Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231016201114.1928083-6-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nilfs2/page.h | 7 +------ include/linux/buffer_head.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nilfs2/page.h~buffer-add-get_nth_bh +++ a/fs/nilfs2/page.h @@ -55,12 +55,7 @@ unsigned long nilfs_find_uncommitted_ext static inline struct buffer_head * nilfs_page_get_nth_block(struct page *page, unsigned int count) { - struct buffer_head *bh = page_buffers(page); - - while (count-- > 0) - bh = bh->b_this_page; - get_bh(bh); - return bh; + return get_nth_bh(page_buffers(page), count); } #endif /* _NILFS_PAGE_H */ --- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h~buffer-add-get_nth_bh +++ a/include/linux/buffer_head.h @@ -457,6 +457,28 @@ __bread(struct block_device *bdev, secto return __bread_gfp(bdev, block, size, __GFP_MOVABLE); } +/** + * get_nth_bh - Get a reference on the n'th buffer after this one. + * @bh: The buffer to start counting from. + * @count: How many buffers to skip. + * + * This is primarily useful for finding the nth buffer in a folio; in + * that case you pass the head buffer and the byte offset in the folio + * divided by the block size. It can be used for other purposes, but + * it will wrap at the end of the folio rather than returning NULL or + * proceeding to the next folio for you. + * + * Return: The requested buffer with an elevated refcount. + */ +static inline __must_check +struct buffer_head *get_nth_bh(struct buffer_head *bh, unsigned int count) +{ + while (count--) + bh = bh->b_this_page; + get_bh(bh); + return bh; +} + bool block_dirty_folio(struct address_space *mapping, struct folio *folio); #ifdef CONFIG_BUFFER_HEAD _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are