linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 04/11] powerpc/mce_power: Use functions to track lockless pgtbl walks

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Message-ID: <77e224d460d004fd918aae1b4e9237cd3a935f78.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 07 Feb 2020 01:00:53 -0300
From:   Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        Reza Arbab <arbab@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 04/11] powerpc/mce_power: Use functions to track
 lockless pgtbl walks

On Thu, 2020-02-06 at 06:48 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
> > @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ unsigned long addr_to_pfn(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr)
> >   {
> >   	pte_t *ptep;
> >   	unsigned int shift;
> > -	unsigned long pfn, flags;
> > +	unsigned long pfn, irq_mask;
> 
> Why change the name ? flags is a well known historical name.

Oh, this commit missed the reasoning for flags name change.

For local_irq_{save,restore} a parameter named flags makes sense, for
the reader, as it could only be flags regarding irq.

I thougt passing flags to {begin,end}_lockless_pgtbl_walk would lose
it's meaning, given that it would only mean "flags for these functions"

So, changing it to irq_mask would make the reader more aware of what it
does mean.

For other commits, I added:

"Variable that saves the irq mask was renamed from flags to irq_mask so
it doesn't lose meaning now it's not directly passed to local_irq_*
functions." 

I can add it to this commit message.

Thanks for the feedback,

Leonardo Bras




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