[PATCH 2/6] mm: change to return bool for ptep_clear_flush_young()/clear_flush_young_ptes()

Ritesh Harjani (IBM) ritesh.list at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 16:18:41 AEDT 2026


Baolin Wang <baolin.wang at linux.alibaba.com> writes:

> The ptep_clear_flush_young() and clear_flush_young_ptes() are used to clear
> the young flag and flush the TLB, returning whether the young flag was set.
> Change the return type to bool to make the intention clearer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang at linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h             | 15 +++++++--------
>  arch/arm64/mm/contpte.c                      |  4 ++--
>  arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h            |  2 +-
>  arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c                   |  8 ++++----
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/64/pgtable.h |  2 +-
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h             |  4 ++--
>  arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h              |  4 ++--
>  arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h               |  4 ++--
>  arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c                        |  4 ++--
>  include/linux/pgtable.h                      |  8 ++++----
>  mm/pgtable-generic.c                         |  7 ++++---
>  11 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

LGTM. Please feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list at gmail.com>



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