Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 5 authors, 2025-06-02

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: pgtable: fix pte_swp_exclusive

From: Sam James <hidden>
Date: 2025-06-02 15:16:25
Also in: linux-alpha, linux-arm-kernel, linux-m68k, linux-mips, linux-riscv, linux-s390, linux-sh, linux-um, lkml, loongarch, sparclinux

Al Viro [off-list ref] writes:
On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 06:09:11PM +0100, Sam James wrote:
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Sam James [off-list ref] writes:
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Lovely cleanup and a great suggestion from Al.

Reviewed-by: Sam James <redacted>

I'd suggest adding a:
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Al, were you planning on taking this through your tree?
FWIW, I expected it to get sent to Linus as "please, run this
sed script before -rc1" kind of thing, script being something
like

sed -i -e 's/int pte_swp_exclusive/bool pte_swp_exclusive/' \
	`git grep -l 'int pte_swp_exclusive'`

with suggested commit message...  It's absolutely regular and
that kind of tree-wide change is easier handled that way.
Ah, sorry. Both Magnus and I are new and irregular kernel contributors,
but I've seen that before and should've thought of it.
[...]
cheers,
sam
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