From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/4] powerpc/mm: Rename global tracker for virtual to physical mapping
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:24:36 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C6A00C.5030602@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455806240.5284.19.camel@ellerman.id.au>
On 02/18/2016 08:07 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 17:42 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>
>> This renames the global list which tracks all the virtual to physical
>> mapping and also the global list which tracks all the available unused
>> vmemmap_hw_map node structures.
>
> But why? Why are the new names *so* much better that we would want to go
> through all this churn?
Hmm, okay. Its kind of subjective but then its upto you.
>
>> It also attempts to explain the purpose
>> of these global linked lists and points out a possible race condition.
>
> I'm happy to take the comments.
Sure, will send across next time around separately.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-19 4:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-17 12:12 [RFC 1/4] powerpc/mm: Rename variable to reflect start address of a section Anshuman Khandual
2016-02-17 12:12 ` [RFC 2/4] powerpc/mm: Add comments to the vmemmap layout Anshuman Khandual
2016-02-17 14:49 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-18 14:22 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-02-19 5:15 ` Anshuman Khandual
2016-02-17 12:12 ` [RFC 3/4] powerpc/mm: Rename the vmemmap_backing struct and its elements Anshuman Khandual
2016-02-17 14:52 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-02-18 14:23 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-02-17 12:12 ` [RFC 4/4] powerpc/mm: Rename global tracker for virtual to physical mapping Anshuman Khandual
2016-02-18 14:37 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-02-19 4:54 ` Anshuman Khandual [this message]
2016-02-19 10:30 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-02-19 11:02 ` Anshuman Khandual
2016-02-18 14:34 ` [RFC 1/4] powerpc/mm: Rename variable to reflect start address of a section Michael Ellerman
2016-02-19 4:50 ` Anshuman Khandual
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