linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/35] x86: make 64 bit use early

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Date:	Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:47:14 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/35] x86: make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem
 before slab

On 02/09/2010 01:45 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> /**
>>  * roundup_pow_of_two - round the given value up to nearest power of two
>>  * @n - parameter
>>  *
> 
> Hah.  Naming can be a real headache with small, common operations.
> 
> At the same time, round_up() versus roundup() is a source of some
> serious confusion.   roundup_bin() might be a better name... I don't know.
> 

On the other hand... if we're doing a renaming patchset at some point
(which would be necessary anyway, since all these interfaces have
users), perhaps we should change roundup_pow_of_two() to
next_power_of_two() or something like that.

	-hpa

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