From: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com,
dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
mjguzik@gmail.com, luto@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
acme@kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
willy@infradead.org, raghavendra.kt@amd.com,
boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/7] x86/mm: Simplify clear_page_*
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:21:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873471ge1o.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251030001759.GDaQKut2wDtopc0qn6@fat_crate.local>
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 04:26:38PM -0700, Ankur Arora wrote:
>> After this change the only remaining functions in x86/lib/clear_page_64.S are
>> this one and rep_stos_alternative.
>>
>> And so the _orig suffix seemed to be a little confusing. That's why the
>> change to the more functional name.
>
> No, as said, having "clear_page" somewhere there in the name should stay. It
> can be "__clear_page" or something along those lines but not something
> completely different.
Sounds good. Will change.
--
ankur
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-30 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-27 20:21 [PATCH v8 0/7] mm: folio_zero_user: clear contiguous pages Ankur Arora
2025-10-27 20:21 ` [PATCH v8 1/7] treewide: provide a generic clear_user_page() variant Ankur Arora
2025-11-18 7:32 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-10-27 20:21 ` [PATCH v8 2/7] mm: introduce clear_pages() and clear_user_pages() Ankur Arora
2025-11-07 8:47 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-18 7:34 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-18 19:23 ` Ankur Arora
2025-10-27 20:21 ` [PATCH v8 3/7] mm/highmem: introduce clear_user_highpages() Ankur Arora
2025-11-07 8:48 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-10 7:20 ` Ankur Arora
2025-10-27 20:21 ` [PATCH v8 4/7] x86/mm: Simplify clear_page_* Ankur Arora
2025-10-28 13:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-10-29 23:26 ` Ankur Arora
2025-10-30 0:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-10-30 5:21 ` Ankur Arora [this message]
2025-10-27 20:21 ` [PATCH v8 5/7] x86/clear_page: Introduce clear_pages() Ankur Arora
2025-10-28 13:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-10-28 18:51 ` Ankur Arora
2025-10-29 22:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-10-29 23:31 ` Ankur Arora
2025-10-27 20:21 ` [PATCH v8 6/7] mm, folio_zero_user: support clearing page ranges Ankur Arora
2025-11-07 8:59 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-10 7:20 ` Ankur Arora
2025-11-10 8:57 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-11 6:24 ` Ankur Arora
2025-10-27 20:21 ` [PATCH v8 7/7] mm: folio_zero_user: cache neighbouring pages Ankur Arora
2025-10-27 21:33 ` [PATCH v8 0/7] mm: folio_zero_user: clear contiguous pages Andrew Morton
2025-10-28 17:22 ` Ankur Arora
2025-11-07 5:33 ` Ankur Arora
2025-11-07 8:59 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
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