Subject: Re: [RFC 4/4] powerpc/mm: Rename global tracker for virtual to physical mapping

From: Anshuman Khandual <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:24:36 +0530

On 02/18/2016 08:07 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 17:42 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> 
>> This renames the global list which tracks all the virtual to physical
>> mapping and also the global list which tracks all the available unused
>> vmemmap_hw_map node structures.
> 
> But why? Why are the new names *so* much better that we would want to go
> through all this churn?

Hmm, okay. Its kind of subjective but then its upto you.

> 
>> It also attempts to explain the purpose
>> of these global linked lists and points out a possible race condition.
> 
> I'm happy to take the comments.

Sure, will send across next time around separately.