Re: [PATCH 15/30] mm: introduce and use linear_page_delta()
Gregory Price <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 01:23:26PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > It's often useful to obtain the number of pages a given address lies at > within a VMA. > > Add linear_page_delta() to determine this and update linear_page_index() to > make use of it. > > Add comments to describe both linear_page_delta() and linear_page_index(). > > No functional change intended. > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <[email protected]>