Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] x86/mm: More discriptive names for page de/validation functions

2019-12-16 Thread Jan Beulich
On 13.12.2019 18:37, George Dunlap wrote: > The functions alloc_page_type(), alloc_lN_table(), free_page_type() > and free_lN_table() are confusingly named: nothing is being allocated > or freed. Rather, the page being passed in is being either validated > or devalidated for use as the specific ty

[Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] x86/mm: More discriptive names for page de/validation functions

2019-12-13 Thread George Dunlap
The functions alloc_page_type(), alloc_lN_table(), free_page_type() and free_lN_table() are confusingly named: nothing is being allocated or freed. Rather, the page being passed in is being either validated or devalidated for use as the specific type; in the specific case of pagetables, these may