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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:41:51 +0100
From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/71] btrfs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and
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On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 09:40:29PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time ago
> with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page cache with
> bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.
> 
> This promise never materialized. And unlikely will.
> 
> We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
> PAGE_SIZE. And it's constant source of confusion on whether PAGE_CACHE_*
> or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case, especially on the
> border between fs and mm.
> 
> Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
> breakage to be doable.
> 
> Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special. They are not.
> 
> The changes are pretty straight-forward:
> 
>  - <foo> << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;
> 
>  - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};
> 
>  - page_cache_get() -> get_page();
> 
>  - page_cache_release() -> put_page();
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>