From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org,
"Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] mm: Add address apis for ptdescs
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:27:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57f9c648-19a7-40c5-a611-fb94efeb7ac3@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aZYfusoUR69JO1_X@syn-2603-8080-10f0-ab80-0000-0000-0000-1382.res6.spectrum.com>
On 2/18/26 12:23, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
>> What do you think is a reasonable name for freeing?
>>
>> pgtable_free() is defined for sparc and powerpc. I could rename them
>> prefixed with "__" to get the name since they only have 1-2 internal
>> callers.
> Matthew brought another question to my attention in this particular
> scenario. Should pat/set_memory's alloc_*_page() use pte_alloc_one()
> instead of get_zeroed_page()? Is there any reason not to?
They're not special in any way I can think of. There's no reason I know
of to keep them special and avoid converting them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-18 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-11 19:52 [PATCH v5 0/4] Convert 64-bit x86/mm/pat to ptdescs Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-11 19:52 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] mm: Add address apis for ptdescs Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-11 20:13 ` Dave Hansen
2026-02-11 21:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-02-11 22:18 ` Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-12 0:07 ` Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-18 20:23 ` Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-18 20:27 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2026-02-11 19:52 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert pte code to use ptdescs Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-11 21:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-02-11 22:23 ` Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-11 23:04 ` Dave Hansen
2026-02-11 19:52 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert pmd " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-11 20:07 ` Dave Hansen
2026-02-11 21:45 ` Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-11 19:52 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert split_large_page() " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2026-02-11 21:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-02-11 22:38 ` Vishal Moola (Oracle)
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