linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 07/11] powerpc/kvm/e500: Use functions to track lockless pgtbl walks

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Date:   Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:10:02 -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 07/11] powerpc/kvm/e500: Use functions to track
 lockless pgtbl walks

Hello Christophe, 

On Thu, 2020-02-06 at 07:18 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> I don't really like unbalanced begin/end.
> 
> Something like the following would be cleaner:
> 
> 
> begin_lockless_pgtbl_walk()
> ptep = find()
> if (ptep) {
> 	pte = READ_ONCE()
> 	if (pte_present(pte))
> 		wing=
> 	else
> 		ret = -EINVAL;
> }
> end_lockless_pgtbl_walk()
> 
> if (ret) {
> 	pr_err_rate...()
> 	goto out;
> }
> 
> 

Sure, looks better that way. I will change that for v7.

Thanks for the feedback,

Leonardo Bras

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