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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 2/8] x86/mm: break out kernel address space handling
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On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 12:48 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
>
> The page fault handler (__do_page_fault())  basically has two sections:
> one for handling faults in the kernel porttion of the address space
> and another for faults in the user porttion of the address space.

%s/porttion/portion

> But, these two parts don't stick out that well.  Let's make that more
> clear from code separation and naming.  Pull kernel fault
> handling into its own helper, and reflect that naming by renaming
> spurious_fault() -> spurious_kernel_fault().
>
> Also, rewrite the vmalloc handling comment a bit.  It was a bit
> stale and also glossed over the reserved bit handling.

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