On Wed, Jul 06, 2022, Chao Peng wrote: > The sync mechanism between mmu_notifier and page fault handler employs > fields mmu_notifier_seq/count and mmu_notifier_range_start/end. For the > to be added private memory, there is the same mechanism needed but not > rely on mmu_notifier (It uses new introduced memfile_notifier). This > patch renames the existing fields and related helper functions to a > neutral name mmu_updating_* so private memory can reuse.
mmu_updating_* is too broad of a term, e.g. page faults and many other operations also update the mmu. Although the name most definitely came from the mmu_notifier, it's not completely inaccurate for other sources, e.g. KVM's MMU is still being notified of something, even if the source is not the actual mmu_notifier. If we really want a different name, I'd vote for nomenclature that captures the invalidation aspect, which is really what the variables are all trackng, e.g. mmu_invalidate_seq mmu_invalidate_in_progress mmu_invalidate_range_start mmu_invalidate_range_end
