Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 6 authors, 2021-07-27

Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm: introduce pte_install() helper

From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-18 21:31:22
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On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 12:30:28PM +0800, Qi Zheng wrote:
Currently we have three times the same few lines repeated in the
code. Deduplicate them by newly introduced pte_install() helper.

Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <redacted>
I don't like the name of the helper: we have confusion of PTE being
PTE-entry or PTE page table. And pte_install() doing pmd_populate()
doesn't help the situation.

Maybe pmd_install()? Or pte_table_install()? I donno.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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