linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH x86/mm 08/11] x86 ia32 ptrace getreg/putreg merge

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Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:59:20 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH x86/mm 08/11] x86 ia32 ptrace getreg/putreg merge

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:00:31AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> +#define R32(l,q)							\
>> +	case offsetof(struct user32, regs.l):				\
>> +		regs->q = value; break
>> +
>> +#define SEG32(rs)							\
>> +	case offsetof(struct user32, regs.rs):				\
>> +		return set_segment_reg(child,				\
>> +				       offsetof(struct user_regs_struct, rs), \
>> +				       value);				\
>> +		break
> 
> The code would be a lot more readable if you just opencoded this in the
> caller instead of these obsfucated macros.
> 

For better or worse, though, that is style of existing code.  I 
personally found it easy to deal with when I went through the code recently.

	-hpa
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