linux-kernel - Re: Calls to do_swap_page() from handle_pte_fault() on a system where swap is not configured

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Message-ID: <ac78e666-6c59-4faa-ab87-8b1c7caaeb9e@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 23:12:23 +0100
From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@...nel.org>
To: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>, Jayaraj Rajappan <jayarajpr@...il.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com
Subject: Re: Calls to do_swap_page() from handle_pte_fault() on a system where
 swap is not configured

> 
>  From 92de7131f74b9300ea711ceae98bbe137cf0058f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>
> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 03:12:44 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: rename do_swap_page to do_softleaf_page
> 
> do_swap_page is a stale function name with introductio of softleaf.

The "page" in "softleaf_page" is weird.

In general, the "do_*" is weird as well.

fault_handle_softleaf? Something like that?

-- 
Cheers

David