Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] mm/rmap: remove duplicated exit code in pagewalk loop

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 4:49 PM Lance Yang <ioworker0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 4:27 PM David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 13.06.24 09:52, Barry Song wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 12:02 AM Lance Yang <ioworker0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Introduce the labels walk_done and walk_done_err as exit points to
> > >> eliminate duplicated exit code in the pagewalk loop.
> > >>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
>
> Hi Barry and David,
>
> Thanks for taking time to review!
>
> > > I don't think "return false" necessarily indicates an error, so
> > > "walk_done_err" doesn't seem like an appropriate name.
> > > However, this is a minor issue.
> >
> > Agreed. As we only have a single walk_done user, should we instead
> > remove "walk_done", keep the "page_vma_mapped_walk_done" for that single
> > user, and rename "walk_done_err" to "abort_walk" ?
>
> Yeah, I agree that 'abort_walk' is better than 'walk_done_err', and let's
> keep 'page_vma_mapped_walk_done' for that single user ;)

I just realized that there is another walk_done user, which is
unmap_huge_pmd_locked().

Could I keep "walk_done" but rename it to "done_walk"?

Thanks,
Lance

>
> Thanks again for the suggestions!
> Lance
>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >
> > David / dhildenb
> >





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