Patch series "Constify struct page arguments". While working on various solutions to the 32-bit struct page size regression, one of the problems I found was the networking stack expects to be able to pass const struct page pointers around, and the mm doesn't provide a lot of const-friendly functions to call. The root tangle of problems is that a lot of functions call VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(), which calls dump_page(), which calls a lot of functions which don't take a const struct page (but could be const). This patch (of 6): The only caller of __dump_page() now opencodes dump_page(), so remove it as an externally visible symbol. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210416231531.2521383-1-willy@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210416231531.2521383-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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