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Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 08:08:51 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86, boot: PUD VA support for physical mapping
 (x86_64)

On 05/03/2016 03:05 AM, Baoquan He wrote:
> I have a tiny concern about phys_pmd_init(), both phys_pud_init and
> phys_pte_init name 2nd parameter as 'addr', phys_pmd_init use 'address'.
> If this can be changed to make them look consistent completist would
> have a good sleep from now on.

Yes, consistency would be nice.  Even better would be to call them all
'phys_addr'.

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