From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com,
ziy@nvidia.com, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,
Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, npache@redhat.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com,
dev.jain@arm.com, baohua@kernel.org, lance.yang@linux.dev
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v2] mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for better reading
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:36:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef76bea8-b212-4673-ab3e-9fb5adab660f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250922140938.27343-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
On 22.09.25 16:09, Wei Yang wrote:
> When collapse a pmd, there are two address in use:
>
> * address points to the start of pmd
> * address points to each individual page
>
> Current naming is not easy to distinguish these two and error prone.
>
> Considering the plan to collapse mTHP, name the first one to start_addr
> and second one to addr for better reading and consistency.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
>
> ---
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
--
Cheers
David / dhildenb
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-23 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-22 14:09 Wei Yang
2025-09-23 6:59 ` Dev Jain
2025-09-23 16:11 ` Zi Yan
2025-09-23 16:22 ` Nico Pache
2025-09-23 16:36 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
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