[PATCH v5 08/12] mm: enable lazy_mmu sections to nest

David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) david at kernel.org
Thu Dec 4 03:53:18 PST 2025


On 12/4/25 06:25, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/12/25 1:50 PM, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
>> On 28/11/2025 14:55, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
>>>> + * in_lazy_mmu_mode() can be used to check whether the lazy MMU mode is
>>>> + * currently enabled.
>>> The in_lazy_mmu_mode() name looks ambiguous to me. When the lazy MMU mode
>>> is paused are we still in lazy MMU mode? The __task_lazy_mmu_mode_active()
>>> implementation suggests we are not, while one could still assume we are,
>>> just paused.
>>>
>>> Should in_lazy_mmu_mode() be named e.g. as in_active_lazy_mmu_mode() such
>>> a confusion would not occur in the first place.
>>
>> I see your point, how about is_lazy_mmu_mode_active()?
> 
> Agreed - is_lazy_mmu_mode_active() seems better.

+1, I was scratching my head over this in previous revisions as well.

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Cheers

David



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