linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/8] x86/mm: break out kernel address space handling

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Message-ID: <1536354360.11460.29.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:06:00 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de, x86@...nel.org,
        luto@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/8] x86/mm: break out kernel address space handling

On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 12:48 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> The page fault handler (__do_page_fault())  basically has two sections:
> one for handling faults in the kernel porttion of the address space
> and another for faults in the user porttion of the address space.

%s/porttion/portion

> But, these two parts don't stick out that well.  Let's make that more
> clear from code separation and naming.  Pull kernel fault
> handling into its own helper, and reflect that naming by renaming
> spurious_fault() -> spurious_kernel_fault().
> 
> Also, rewrite the vmalloc handling comment a bit.  It was a bit
> stale and also glossed over the reserved bit handling.