Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] mm: rename vm_ops->find_special_page() to vm_ops->find_normal_page()

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On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 01:52:12PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>... and hide it behind a kconfig option. There is really no need for
>any !xen code to perform this check.
>
>The naming is a bit off: we want to find the "normal" page when a PTE
>was marked "special". So it's really not "finding a special" page.
>
>Improve the documentation, and add a comment in the code where XEN ends
>up performing the pte_mkspecial() through a hypercall. More details can
>be found in commit 923b2919e2c3 ("xen/gntdev: mark userspace PTEs as
>special on x86 PV guests").
>
>Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
>Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>

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