Re: [PATCH 7/7] mm/gup: Retire follow_hugetlb_page()

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 05:53:46PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> Now __get_user_pages() should be well prepared to handle thp completely,
> as long as hugetlb gup requests even without the hugetlb's special path.
> 
> Time to retire follow_hugetlb_page().
> 
> Tweak the comments in follow_page_mask() to reflect reality, by dropping
> the "follow_page()" description.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/hugetlb.h |  12 ---
>  mm/gup.c                |  19 ----
>  mm/hugetlb.c            | 223 ----------------------------------------
>  3 files changed, 254 deletions(-)

It is a like a dream come true :)

I don't know enough about hugetlb details but this series broadly made
sense to me

Thanks,
Jason