linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv5 04/19] mm/page_alloc: Unify alloc_hugepage

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Message-ID: <9a716ae8-c4bd-59d8-f8d3-7816fb58fabe@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:43:08 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Cc:     Kai Huang <kai.huang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 04/19] mm/page_alloc: Unify alloc_hugepage_vma()

A grammar error or two is probably OK in these descriptions, but these
are just riddled with them in a way that makes them hard to read.
Suggestions below.

On 07/17/2018 04:20 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> We don't need to have separate implementations of alloc_hugepage_vma()
> for NUMA and non-NUMA. Using variant based on alloc_pages_vma() we would
> cover both cases.

"Using the"

> This is preparation patch for allocation encrypted pages.

"a preparation"

"allocation encrypted pages" -> "allocation of encrypted pages" or
"allocation encrypted pages" -> "allocating encrypted pages" or

> alloc_pages_vma() will handle allocation of encrypted pages. With this
> change we don' t need to cover alloc_hugepage_vma() separately.

"don' t" -> "don't"

> The change makes typo in Alpha's implementation of

"a typo"