Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] intel_th: avoid using deprecated page->mapping, index fields

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Mar 31 2025 - 11:57:40 EST


On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 01:56:08PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> Greg, as we're late in merge window obviously now, could you roll up into
> 6.15-rc1? Thanks!
>
> This does not require backporting, as this is a critical change for mm
> moving forward, as page->index,mapping are deprecated and will be entirely
> removed extremely soon.

"extremely soon" as in "There are four places in the kernel which
currently use page->index, and three of them are gone once Andrew
sends his pull requests". So this will be the last user, assuming
nobody else decides to add a user of page->index in the meantime.