From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] mm: globalize rest_of_page() macro
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 19:42:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8d86743-6231-414d-a5e8-65e867123fea@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260303182845.250bb2de@kernel.org>
On 3/3/26 7:28 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2026 20:27:08 -0500 Yury Norov wrote:
>> The net/9p networking driver has a handy macro to calculate the
>> amount of bytes from a given pointer to the end of page. Move it
>> to core/mm, and apply tree-wide. No functional changes intended.
>>
>> This series was originally introduced as a single patch #07/12 in:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260219181407.290201-1-ynorov@nvidia.com/
>>
>> Split it for better granularity and submit separately.
>
> I don't get what the motivation is here. Another helper developers
> and readers of the code will need to know about just to replace
> obvious and easy to comprehend math.
I fully agree, I had the same thought reading this.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-04 2:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-04 1:27 Yury Norov
2026-03-04 1:27 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: add " Yury Norov
2026-03-04 1:27 ` [PATCH 2/8] fs: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate Yury Norov
2026-03-04 1:27 ` [PATCH 3/8] net: " Yury Norov
2026-03-04 1:27 ` [PATCH 4/8] core: " Yury Norov
2026-03-04 1:27 ` [PATCH 5/8] spi: " Yury Norov
2026-03-04 1:27 ` [PATCH 6/8] KVM: " Yury Norov
2026-03-04 1:27 ` [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: " Yury Norov
2026-03-04 1:27 ` [PATCH 8/8] arch: " Yury Norov
2026-03-04 2:28 ` [PATCH 0/8] mm: globalize rest_of_page() macro Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-04 2:42 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2026-03-04 2:49 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-03-04 3:32 ` Yury Norov
2026-03-04 3:35 ` Jens Axboe
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