[PATCH] arm64: mmu: set the contiguous for kernel mappings when appropriate

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue Oct 11 08:10:58 PDT 2016


On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 09:21:14AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 11 October 2016 at 08:44, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 07:12:44PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > Not a big deal, but the 'block' part here and elsewhere is now arguably
> > misleading (given 'block' is an architectural term).
> >
> > I haven't come up with a better term, so again, not a big deal. ;)
> 
> Indeed. I could simply call it 'allow_cont_mappings' in the context of
> this function, and keep the call below as is.

I'd prefer that the naming is consistent across functions, even if it's left
as-is (and arguably cont makes it sounds like it doesn't cover block mappings).
So unless we find a suitably-equipped thesaurus, as-is is probably fine.

Thanks,
Mark.



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