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From: Em Sharnoff <sharnoff@neon.tech>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	"Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>,
	Oleg Vasilev <oleg@neon.tech>,
	Arthur Petukhovsky <arthur@neon.tech>,
	Stefan Radig <stefan@neon.tech>, Misha Sakhnov <misha@neon.tech>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/mm: Handle alloc failure in phys_*_init()
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 09:38:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2080ec7c-8dc8-4f03-bd96-78ba47e55a97@neon.tech> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22cd0fa8-d14d-4d37-a6a1-5e6827d6182b@intel.com>

On 6/10/25 15:55, Dave Hansen wrote:

> Are there any _actual_ users of 'paddr_last'? I see a lot of setting it
> and passing it around, but I _think_ this is the only place it actually
> gets used. Here, the fact that it's an address doesn't even matter.

I checked and didn't find any other users, but I'm happy to give others a
chance to correct me in case I missed something.

> Could you please find a way to reduce the number of casts?

What do you think about changing the return for these functions to just 'int'
for errors?
It's a larger change (especially if all callers should be updated to check the
return value), but I think much cleaner in the end.

> Please write everything in imperative voice. No "we's", please.

Noted, thanks - will address in the next version.

Em


  reply	other threads:[~2025-06-11  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-10 10:15 [PATCH v3 0/2] x86/mm: Improve alloc handling of phys_*_init() Em Sharnoff
2025-06-10 10:16 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/mm: Handle alloc failure in phys_*_init() Em Sharnoff
2025-06-10 14:55   ` Dave Hansen
2025-06-11  8:38     ` Em Sharnoff [this message]
2025-06-11 14:16       ` Dave Hansen
2025-06-11 19:26         ` Em Sharnoff
2025-06-11 19:36           ` Dave Hansen
2025-06-13 20:17             ` Em Sharnoff
2025-06-11 22:56     ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-06-10 15:07   ` Dave Hansen
2025-06-11  8:39     ` Em Sharnoff
2025-06-10 10:17 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] x86/mm: Use GFP_KERNEL for alloc_low_pages() after boot Em Sharnoff

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