[merged mm-stable] dax-remove-access-to-page-index.patch removed from -mm tree

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The quilt patch titled
     Subject: dax: remove access to page->index
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     dax-remove-access-to-page-index.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

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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: dax: remove access to page->index
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:53:55 +0000

This looks like a complete mess (why are we setting page->index at page
fault time?), but I no longer care about DAX, and there's no reason to let
DAX hold us back from removing page->index.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241216155408.8102-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 drivers/dax/device.c |    9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/dax/device.c~dax-remove-access-to-page-index
+++ a/drivers/dax/device.c
@@ -89,14 +89,13 @@ static void dax_set_mapping(struct vm_fa
 			ALIGN_DOWN(vmf->address, fault_size));
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
-		struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn_t_to_pfn(pfn) + i);
+		struct folio *folio = pfn_folio(pfn_t_to_pfn(pfn) + i);
 
-		page = compound_head(page);
-		if (page->mapping)
+		if (folio->mapping)
 			continue;
 
-		page->mapping = filp->f_mapping;
-		page->index = pgoff + i;
+		folio->mapping = filp->f_mapping;
+		folio->index = pgoff + i;
 	}
 }
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are

mm-separate-folio_split_memcg_refs-from-split_page_memcg.patch
mm-simplify-split_page_memcg.patch
mm-remove-references-to-folio-in-split_page_memcg.patch
mm-simplify-folio_memcg_charged.patch
mm-remove-references-to-folio-in-__memcg_kmem_uncharge_page.patch





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