From: willy@infradead.org (Matthew Wilcox)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm/vmalloc: Add interfaces to free unused page table
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 14:07:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180308220708.GA29073@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1520527285.2693.56.camel@hpe.com>
On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 03:56:30PM +0000, Kani, Toshi wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-03-07 at 20:00 -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 11:32:26AM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > > +/**
> > > + * pud_free_pmd_page - clear pud entry and free pmd page
> > > + *
> > > + * Returns 1 on success and 0 on failure (pud not cleared).
> > > + */
> > > +int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud)
> > > +{
> > > + return pud_none(*pud);
> > > +}
> >
> > Wouldn't it be clearer if you returned 'bool' instead of 'int' here?
>
> I thought about it and decided to use 'int' since all other pud/pmd/pte
> interfaces, such as pud_none() above, use 'int'.
These interfaces were introduced before we had bool ... I suspect nobody's
taken the time to go through and convert them all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-08 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-07 18:32 [PATCH 0/2] fix memory leak / panic in ioremap huge pages Toshi Kani
2018-03-07 18:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm/vmalloc: Add interfaces to free unused page table Toshi Kani
2018-03-07 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-07 23:02 ` Kani, Toshi
2018-03-07 22:55 ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-08 4:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-08 15:56 ` Kani, Toshi
2018-03-08 22:07 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-03-08 23:27 ` Kani, Toshi
2018-03-08 8:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-08 18:04 ` Will Deacon
2018-03-08 19:30 ` Kani, Toshi
2018-03-07 18:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces Toshi Kani
2018-03-07 23:01 ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-07 23:22 ` Kani, Toshi
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