Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Allow architectures to request 'old' entries when prefaulting

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Sat Dec 26 2020 - 15:48:24 EST


On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 09:57:13AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Because not only does that get rid of the "if (page)" test, I think it
> would make things a bit clearer. When I read the patch first, the
> initial "next_page()" call confused me.

Agreed. Here we go: