Re: [PATCH 10/15] mm/hmm: do not differentiate between empty entry or missing directory v2

From: John Hubbard
Date: Wed Mar 21 2018 - 19:17:01 EST


On 03/21/2018 07:48 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:24:34PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>> On 03/19/2018 07:00 PM, jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> From: JÃrÃme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>

<snip>

>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> @@ -438,7 +423,7 @@ static int hmm_vma_walk_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp,
>>> pfns[i] = 0;
>>>
>>> if (pte_none(pte)) {
>>> - pfns[i] = HMM_PFN_EMPTY;
>>> + pfns[i] = 0;
>>
>> This works, but why not keep HMM_PFN_EMPTY, and just define it as zero?
>> Symbols are better than raw numbers here.
>>
>
> The last patch do that so i don't think it is worth respinning
> just to make this intermediate state prettier.
>

Yes, you're right, of course. And, no other problems found, so:

Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
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John Hubbard
NVIDIA