From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [90.155.50.34]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 157CC3542D3 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:55:53 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.50.34 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1770846955; cv=none; b=sWc+OHYStePZWPWyH/swuYWm82doieIbYTz6XE3LFZoThXvS/xlrQMVVZeYDxEnJONk1XKB2uw4nzvDzO5fL+raUBF7VJkyNP8WFaOFEkMfhFHWbol9qaTQPcyTE1sBrVWWQhg1FnLsqtSFEkYHXcksubW9KvNLQQjJ9zbSHKfE= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1770846955; c=relaxed/simple; bh=hss6V+0e/pM74B33YeATJKbbbFyRvwV7EneBGBEqQzo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=JU3h2+wrR1oijoicCAQp2WleuXqECurUhj+JC+31Wy+gkXwmdq7F++k1h/87JVZ8JrFMTpfez8qPANHSrw3DlheHnFn/IRTOuM4/hBDAOAgJxwLDtkjR85a/Fcf/2741invFIB0BRHyD+MAI1tChQSMBGv4BRL1eEaP2S4esRH0= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=QHBu58CM; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.50.34 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="QHBu58CM" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=rb+VtnPgyX+Ra6gHU58goRwQsnZt12jPG+cuPbuWzX4=; b=QHBu58CMP9tNGFBXLo00CWoUgJ Y/e1K+fN7H/+BYMDo2p5sXu6oExAbkm/rRjpXDBw4gyADeIDwOjmQ9k6EyiQCb6XNfWoAsSqZbv8t FVfVIyuSh3VYYVI21zYKqxUXNWOVTtveWh+zOr2kHqkJCvmE3/Lz59W/DKjaYy0AYNbpUEowi/nD1 jQYecxJnZ2/bBD8/YMVbHSrMeYDI0KZdhoP4VJjq3PZd308Ad6jJz3Gyo8AsSiF5IimVC9rnA2y9B RT9ZIkfgJ/bG8NrFzhWWDSh06riVgmoJWiurCvG4imqWb/T7ceHZQUh4Suy/e6weCQZYY1RO1K7rz Be37hsVg==; Received: from willy by casper.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1vqIBc-0000000DFI8-0UIM; Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:55:52 +0000 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:55:51 +0000 From: Matthew Wilcox To: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org, "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Dave Hansen , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] x86/mm/pat: Convert pte code to use ptdescs Message-ID: References: <20260211195233.368497-1-vishal.moola@gmail.com> <20260211195233.368497-3-vishal.moola@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260211195233.368497-3-vishal.moola@gmail.com> On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 11:52:31AM -0800, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote: > -static bool try_to_free_pte_page(pte_t *pte) > +static bool try_to_free_pte(pte_t *pte) I don't like this name though. You're not freeing a single PTE, you're freeing a level of page tables. How about try_to_free_pte_table()?