From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, mm: add generic kernel/ident mapping helper
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:39:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121228113925.GA12363@x1.alien8.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQXgDGBsCHPC2m4mDx4JxgKu5tJ0ABMY2jch-1=JUdnm4w@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:13:06AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> so will stay with alloc.
"alloc" is too generic. So call it 'get_one_pgt_page' or
'alloc_pgt_page' or something descriptive to say what it does than
simply 'alloc'. 'alloc' can be anything - it could mean allocation hints
or flags or whatever you feel like at that particular time of day :-).
Thanks.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-28 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-27 18:51 [PATCH] x86, mm: add generic kernel/ident mapping helper Borislav Petkov
2012-12-27 19:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-27 23:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-28 0:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-28 8:13 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-28 11:39 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2012-12-28 19:12 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-28 11:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-28 19:13 ` Yinghai Lu
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