Re: [PATCH] mm: treewide: Clarify pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() naming

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Jun 10 2019 - 16:09:38 EST


On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:33:54 +0100 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The naming of pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() seems to have confused a few
> people, and until recently arm64 used these erroneously/pointlessly for
> other levels of pagetable.
>
> To make it incredibly clear that these only apply to the PTE level, and
> to align with the naming of pgtable_pmd_page_{ctor,dtor}(), let's rename
> them to pgtable_pte_page_{ctor,dtor}().
>
> The bulk of this conversion was performed by the below Coccinelle
> semantic patch, with manual whitespace fixups applied within macros, and
> Documentation updated by hand.

eep. I get a spectacular number of rejects thanks to Mike's series

asm-generic-x86-introduce-generic-pte_allocfree_one.patch
alpha-switch-to-generic-version-of-pte-allocation.patch
arm-switch-to-generic-version-of-pte-allocation.patch
arm64-switch-to-generic-version-of-pte-allocation.patch
csky-switch-to-generic-version-of-pte-allocation.patch
m68k-sun3-switch-to-generic-version-of-pte-allocation.patch
mips-switch-to-generic-version-of-pte-allocation.patch
nds32-switch-to-generic-version-of-pte-allocation.patch
nios2-switch-to-generic-version-of-pte-allocation.patch
parisc-switch-to-generic-version-of-pte-allocation.patch
riscv-switch-to-generic-version-of-pte-allocation.patch
um-switch-to-generic-version-of-pte-allocation.patch
unicore32-switch-to-generic-version-of-pte-allocation.patch

But at least they will make your patch smaller!