linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/pgtable: Drop pgtable_t variable from pte_fn

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Message-ID: <03be69c4-9a63-041c-49fc-249b2bf1d58a@arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 May 2019 19:32:42 +0530
From:   Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, jglisse@...hat.com,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/pgtable: Drop pgtable_t variable from pte_fn_t
 functions



On 05/02/2019 07:16 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 06:48:46PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> Drop the pgtable_t variable from all implementation for pte_fn_t as none of
>> them use it. apply_to_pte_range() should stop computing it as well. Should
>> help us save some cycles.
> You didn't add Martin Schwidefsky for some reason.  He introduced

scripts/get_maintainer.pl did not list the email but anyways I should have
added it from git blame. Thanks for adding his email to the thread.