linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 19/51] x86/entry/32: rename 'error_code' to 'common

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Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:30:38 -0500
From:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>,
	Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 19/51] x86/entry/32: rename 'error_code' to
 'common_exception'

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:40:03AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:
> > The 'error_code' label is awkwardly named, especially when it shows up
> > in a stack trace.  Move it to its own local function and rename it to
> > 'common_exception', analagous to the existing 'common_interrupt'.
> >
> > This also makes related stack traces more sensible.
> 
> This is okay with me.  You could also call it "error_entry" for
> consistency with x86_64.

On x86_64, error_entry is just a helper function which doesn't call the
C handler, and so it doesn't usually show up in the stack trace.  So its
scope is quite different from error_code/common_exception.

-- 
Josh