From: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] mm: pagewalk: fix documentation of PTE hole handling
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:01:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3695521.kQq0lBPeGt@devpool047> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3200642.44csPzL39Z@devpool047>
Empty PTEs are passed to the pte_entry callback, not to pte_hole.
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
---
include/linux/pagewalk.h | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/pagewalk.h b/include/linux/pagewalk.h
index ac7b38ad5903..f3fafb731ffd 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagewalk.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagewalk.h
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ struct mm_walk;
* this handler is required to be able to handle
* pmd_trans_huge() pmds. They may simply choose to
* split_huge_page() instead of handling it explicitly.
- * @pte_entry: if set, called for each non-empty PTE (lowest-level)
- * entry
+ * @pte_entry: if set, called for each PTE (lowest-level) entry,
+ * including empty ones
* @pte_hole: if set, called for each hole at all levels,
- * depth is -1 if not known, 0:PGD, 1:P4D, 2:PUD, 3:PMD
- * 4:PTE. Any folded depths (where PTRS_PER_P?D is equal
- * to 1) are skipped.
+ * depth is -1 if not known, 0:PGD, 1:P4D, 2:PUD, 3:PMD.
+ * Any folded depths (where PTRS_PER_P?D is equal to 1)
+ * are skipped.
* @hugetlb_entry: if set, called for each hugetlb entry
* @test_walk: caller specific callback function to determine whether
* we walk over the current vma or not. Returning 0 means
--
2.37.2
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-22 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-22 12:59 [PATCH 0/6] Minor improvements for pagewalk code Rolf Eike Beer
2022-08-22 13:00 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm: pagewalk: don't check vma in walk_page_range_novma() Rolf Eike Beer
2022-08-22 13:01 ` Rolf Eike Beer [this message]
2022-08-22 13:02 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm: pagewalk: add api documentation for walk_page_range_novma() Rolf Eike Beer
2022-08-22 13:03 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm: pagewalk: allow walk_page_range_novma() without mm Rolf Eike Beer
2022-08-22 13:04 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm: pagewalk: move variables to more local scope, tweak loops Rolf Eike Beer
[not found] ` <2203731.iZASKD2KPV@devpool047>
2022-08-22 20:53 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm: pagewalk: make error checks more obvious Andrew Morton
2022-08-24 11:00 ` [PATCH 7/6] mm: pagewalk: add back missing variable initializations Rolf Eike Beer
2022-08-24 15:08 ` Nathan Chancellor
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