[RFC 3/4] powerpc/mm: Rename the vmemmap_backing struct and its elements

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Feb 18 01:52:59 AEDT 2016


Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> The structure to track single virtual to physical mapping has
> been renamed from vmemmap_backing to vmemmap_hw_map which sounds
> more appropriate. This forms a single entry of the global linked
> list tracking all of the vmemmap physical mapping. The changes
> are as follows.
>
> 	vmemmap_backing.list -> vmemmap_hw_map.link
> 	vmemmap_backing.phys -> vmemmap_hw_map.paddr
> 	vmemmap_backing.virt_addr -> vmemmap_hw_map.vaddr
>

I am not sure this helps. If we are going to take these renames, can you
wait till th book3s p9 preparation patches [1] hit upstream ? 

[1] http://mid.gmane.org/1454923241-6681-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
-aneesh



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