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From: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:49:39 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] mm/rmap: remove duplicated exit code in pagewalk loop
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 4:27=E2=80=AFPM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com=
> wrote:
>
> On 13.06.24 09:52, Barry Song wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 12:02=E2=80=AFAM Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.co=
m> 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@nvidia.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
> >

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 ;)

Thanks again for the suggestions!
Lance

>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David / dhildenb
>