Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm: introduce pte_install() helper

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Sun Jul 18 2021 - 17:31:22 EST


On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 12:30:28PM +0800, Qi Zheng wrote:
> Currently we have three times the same few lines repeated in the
> code. Deduplicate them by newly introduced pte_install() helper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I don't like the name of the helper: we have confusion of PTE being
PTE-entry or PTE page table. And pte_install() doing pmd_populate()
doesn't help the situation.

Maybe pmd_install()? Or pte_table_install()? I donno.

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Kirill A. Shutemov