linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 00/21] Compile-time stack validation

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Message-ID: <20150806174646.GC25637@treble.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 6 Aug 2015 12:46:46 -0500
From:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Pedro Alves <palves@...hat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>, x86@...nel.org,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/21] Compile-time stack validation

On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 12:23:32PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 10:07:50AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > This is v8 of the compile-time stack validation patch set, based on the
> > > tip/master branch.
> > > 
> > > The frame pointer macros are still called FRAME and ENDFRAME because I
> > > don't think we converged on anything else yet.  Otherwise I tried to
> > > address all the other review comments from v7.
> > 
> > So I think:
> > 
> > 	FRAME_START
> > 	FRAME_END
> 
> (One last tweak to the bikeshed)
> 
> The antonym of END is BEGIN.  So how about:
> 
>   FRAME_BEGIN
>   FRAME_END

Ok, so thesaurus.com reminds me that words can have more than one
antonym, and that START and BEGIN are both antonyms of END.

Personally, when I START something I usually FINISH it or even STOP it.

So I'll stop the bikeshedding I started and go with BEGIN/END.

-- 
Josh
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