linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Change to use DEFINE_SHOW

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Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:06:15 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@...il.com>, keescook@...omium.org,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, luto@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Change to use
 DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE macro

On 11/19/18 7:43 AM, Yangtao Li wrote:
> -static const struct file_operations ptdump_curusr_fops = {
> -	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
> -	.open		= ptdump_open_curusr,
> -	.read		= seq_read,
> -	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
> -	.release	= single_release,
> -};
> +DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(ptdump_curusr);

FWIW, I rather dislike this conversion and the DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE()
approach in general.  It makes it basically impossible to go from
ptdump_curusr to ptdump_open_curusr without opening up the macro and
reverse-engineering it.

My test is that for these macros to be sane, I need to be able to find
"ptdump_open_curusr" by grepping for "ptdump_curusr".  This fails the test.

I don't think saving a few lines of code is worth the obfuscation.