Re: [PATCH 0/8] mm: Drop pxd_ERROR()

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 31/08/26 11:38 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Anshuman,
> 
> On Mon, 2026-08-31 at 11:13 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> pxd_ERROR() macros have been provided by all platforms, which are very much
>> identical and can be dropped off completely if these pgtable printing could
>> be moved to callers in generic MM aka all pxd_clear_bad().
> 
> If pxd_ERROR() macros are really all identical, why not provide a common 
> definiton
> of that macro? I'm always a bit concerned about such changes as there is 
> always
> a risk to oversee arch-specific peculiarities.

We don't those platform macros any more after converting generic MM into using 
ptval_bytes_to_hex_str()
which now handles different pgtable entry types.
> 
> Adrian
>