linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/10] percpu: fix misnomer in schunk/dchunk variable names

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Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:10:09 -0400
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Dennis Zhou <dennisz@...com>
Cc:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, kernel-team@...com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] percpu: fix misnomer in schunk/dchunk variable
 names

On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 10:23:12PM -0400, Dennis Zhou wrote:
> From: "Dennis Zhou (Facebook)" <dennisszhou@...il.com>
> 
> With moving the base_addr in the chunks responsible for serving the
> first chunk up, the use of schunk/dchunk in pcpu_setup_first_chunk no
> longer makes sense. This makes the linking in the first chunk code not
> rely on a ternary and renames the variables to a shared variable, chunk,
> because the allocation path is sequential.

Ah cool, please disregard my previous comment on the misnomer.  You
can explain in the previous patch's description that a follow-up patch
will resolve the situation tho.

> @@ -1709,13 +1709,13 @@ int __init pcpu_setup_first_chunk(const struct pcpu_alloc_info *ai,
>  		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pcpu_slot[i]);
>  
>  	/*
> +	 * Initialize first chunk.
> +	 * pcpu_first_chunk will always manage the dynamic region of the
> +	 * first chunk.  The static region is dropped as those addresses

Would "not covered by any chunk" be clearer than "dropped"?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun