linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/asm/entry/64: Rename THREAD_INFO() to ASM_ASM_THREAD_INFO

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Message-ID: <20150324192410.GE11525@pd.tnic>
Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:24:10 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/asm/entry/64: Rename THREAD_INFO() to
 ASM_ASM_THREAD_INFO_MEMOP()

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 07:44:42PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> From 234ed7356ecfa60f4e209d513d89fa9de41aa4c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:29:16 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/asm/entry/64: Rename THREAD_INFO() to ASM_ASM_THREAD_INFO_MEMOP()
> 
> The THREAD_INFO() macro has a somewhat confusingly generic name, defined in
> a generic .h C header file. It also does not make it clear that it constructs
> a memory operand for use in assembly code.
> 
> Rename it to ASM_THREAD_INFO_MEMOP() to make it all glaringly obvious on
> first glance.

Why the MEMOP?

ASM_THREAD_INFO() looks pretty enough to me. :)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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