From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Avi Weiss <thnkslprpt@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>,
Arjun Roy <arjunroy@google.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/memory.c: rename walk_to_pmd() to populate_to_pmd()
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:39:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <efc49438-bc24-416f-af3e-fd2b2867486c@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1d3d22df3b43080855d4728095f9ebaddfd7bf88.1785847364.git.thnkslprpt@gmail.com>
On 8/5/26 16:42, Avi Weiss wrote:
> This helper allocates any missing page-table levels (it doesn't just
> 'walk'. Rename for clarity.
I don't think that's any clearer. The point it that population is just a
side-effect of performing the walk.
The main job of this function is to return a pmd_t pointer.
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-25 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-05 14:42 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm: improve insert_pages() error handling Avi Weiss
2026-08-05 14:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/memory.c: rename walk_to_pmd() to populate_to_pmd() Avi Weiss
2026-08-25 10:39 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-08-05 14:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory.c: simplify error handling in insert_pages() Avi Weiss
2026-08-25 10:38 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-05 14:42 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: return -ENOMEM for page-table allocation failure " Avi Weiss
2026-08-25 10:40 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-25 12:52 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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