Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] mm, sparse-vmemmap: Introduce compound pagemaps

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On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 3:54 AM Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > The folio work really touches the page
> > cache for now, and this seems mostly to touch the devmap paths.
> >
> /me nods -- it really is about devmap infra for usage in device-dax for persistent memory.
>
> Perhaps I should do s/pagemaps/devmap/ throughout the series to avoid confusion.

I also like "devmap" as a more accurate name. It matches the PFN_DEV
and PFN_MAP flags that decorate DAX capable pfn_t instances. It also
happens to match a recommendation I gave to Ira for his support for
supervisor protection keys with devmap pfns.



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