Re: [PATCH -mm] mincore: apply page table walker on do_mincore() (Re: [PATCH 00/10] mm: pagewalk: huge page cleanups and VMA passing)

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Sorry, I've dropped one important word :(

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 04:01:17PM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
...
> > I'd argue that they don't really ever need to actually know at which
> > level they are in the page tables, just if they are at the bottom or
> > not.  Note that *NOBODY* sets a pud or pgd entry.  That's because the
> > walkers are 100% concerned about leaf nodes (pte's) at this point.
> 
> Yes. BTW do you think we should pud_entry() and pgd_entry() immediately?
                                 ^remove

> We can do it and it reduces some trivial evaluations, so it's optimized
> a little.

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