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

[Jürgen Groß]

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"?


Juergen

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