linux-kernel - Re: [patch V3 02/11] x86/mm/cpa: Split, rename and clean up try_preserve_large

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Message-ID: <6837c585-3504-8652-f700-6cd4829565cb@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Sep 2018 09:22:29 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Bin Yang <bin.yang@...el.com>,
        Mark Gross <mark.gross@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [patch V3 02/11] x86/mm/cpa: Split, rename and clean up
 try_preserve_large_page()

On 09/17/2018 07:29 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Avoid the extra variable and gotos by splitting the function into the
> actual algorithm and a callable function which contains the lock
> protection.
> 
> Rename it to should_split_large_page() while at it so the return values make
> actually sense.
> 
> Clean up the code flow, comments and general whitespace damage while at it. No
> functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

This one is getting a wee bit hard to follow from the diff, but the
cleanup and rename looks nice.

Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>