Re: [PATCH 3/4] m68k: mm: Convert init_pointer_table() to use ptdescs

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Jun 26 2025 - 04:41:45 EST


On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 at 02:13, Vishal Moola (Oracle)
<vishal.moola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Motorola uses init_pointer_table() for page tables, so it should be using
> struct ptdesc, not struct page.
>
> This helps us prepare to allocate ptdescs as their own memory
> descriptor, and prepares to remove a user of page->lru.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
i.e. will queue in the m68k tree for v6.17.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds