[PATCH v3 3/5] powerpc/mm: add radix__create_section_mapping()

Anshuman Khandual khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Dec 21 18:03:48 AEDT 2016


On 12/19/2016 02:34 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Reza Arbab <arbab at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> 
>> > Add the linear page mapping function for radix, used by memory hotplug.
>> > This is similar to vmemmap_populate().
>> >
> Ok with this patch your first patch becomes useful. Can you merge that
> with this and rename mmu_linear_psize to mmu_hotplug_psize or even use
> mmu_virtual_psize. The linear naming is confusing.

mmu_linear_psize variable was referring to the page size used to create
kernel linear mapping (the 0xc00.... range) for the newly added memory
section. Why the name should be changed ?



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