Re: [PATCH v9 2/6] mm/memory-failure: surface unhandlable kernel pages as -ENOTRECOVERABLE

[Breno Leitao]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 08:41:25PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 6/9/26 18:15, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 04:41:01PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:

> >> a) HWPoisonKernelOwned: this is not the common style for us to name functions.
> >>
> >> is_kernel_owned_page() or sth like that would do.
> > 
> > Ack, I will rename it is_kernel_owned_page()
> > 
> > In my defence, most of the functions similar to HWPoisonKernelOwned()
> > has this name format, and I got this discussion earlier (with Lance?
> > I think). Here are the similar function names in that file:
> > 
> >  * HWPoisonHandlable
> >  * PageHWPoisonTakenOff()
> >  * SetPageHWPoisonTakenOff
> 
> Some of these probably date back to our old way of handling page flags and
> things, like PageLRU.
> 
> But we really should stop :)

Ack!

> > I will update in the new version.
> 
> Thanks! Probably best to wait a bit, the merge window is coming up either way,
> so this will have to wait a bit either way.

no hurry at all,

Thanks for the review,
--breno