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Patch series "PageFlags cleanups". We have now successfully removed all of the uses of some of the PageFlags from the kernel, but there's nothing to stop somebody reintroducing them. By splitting out FOLIO_FLAGS from PAGEFLAGS, we can stop defining the old flags; and we do that in some of the later patches. After doing this, I realised that dump_page() was living dangerously; we could end up calling folio_test_foo() on a pointer which no longer pointed to a folio (as dump_page() is not necessarily called when the caller has a reference to the page). So I fixed that up. And then I realised that this was the key to making dump_page() take a const argument, which means we can constify the page flags testing, which means we can remove more cast-away-the-const bad code. And here's where I ended up. This patch (of 8): We've progressed far enough with the folio transition that some flags are now no longer checked on pages, but only on folios. To prevent new users appearing, prepare to only define the folio versions of the flag test/set/clear. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240227192337.757313-1-willy@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240227192337.757313-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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