Re: [PATCH RFC 01/11] mm: introduce hw_pte_t for PTE table storage

[Anshuman Khandual]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 08:53:46AM +0200, Jürgen Groß wrote:
> On 31.07.26 07:49, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 05:46:52PM +0100, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> > > pte_t is used both for logical PTE values and for entries stored in a PTE
> > > table, so pte_t * does not distinguish a pointer to a copied value from a
> > > pointer to table storage.
> > 
> > Should we rather call them as "Linux PTE" and "HW PTE" instead ?
> 
> What about "SW PTE"?

Both Linux PTE or SW PTE would be better than current Logical PTE description.