Re: [PATCH v10 01/33] mm: Introduce struct folio

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Fri May 14 2021 - 06:35:25 EST


On 5/11/21 11:47 PM, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> A struct folio is a new abstraction to replace the venerable struct page.
> A function which takes a struct folio argument declares that it will
> operate on the entire (possibly compound) page, not just PAGE_SIZE bytes.
> In return, the caller guarantees that the pointer it is passing does
> not point to a tail page.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>