linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH for 4.17 02/21] rseq: Introduce restartable sequences system call (v12)

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Message-ID: <20180328125216.GF4129@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:52:16 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
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        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH for 4.17 02/21] rseq: Introduce restartable sequences
 system call (v12)

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 02:29:46PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > +static int rseq_get_rseq_cs(struct task_struct *t,
> > +			    unsigned long *start_ip,
> > +			    unsigned long *post_commit_offset,
> > +			    unsigned long *abort_ip,
> > +			    uint32_t *cs_flags)
> > +{

> 
> > +
> > +	*cs_flags = rseq_cs.flags;
> > +	*start_ip = rseq_cs.start_ip;
> > +	*post_commit_offset = rseq_cs.post_commit_offset;
> > +	*abort_ip = rseq_cs.abort_ip;
> 
> Then this becomes a straight struct assignment.

I initially suggested passing a structure instead of many arguments, but
then recondidered, mostly because it will be inlined (due to having only
the one caller) anyway. Still, maybe a struct will work better, I dunno.