linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME

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Date:   Wed, 29 Jul 2020 15:55:07 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, will@...nel.org, a.darwish@...utronix.de,
        tglx@...utronix.de, paulmck@...nel.org, bigeasy@...utronix.de,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, corbet@....net,
        davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_t definition

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 03:52:51PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Manual repetition is boring and error prone.

Yes, but generated functions are hard to grep for, and I'm pretty sure
that kernel-doc doesn't know how to expand macros into comments that it
can then extract documentation from.

I've been thinking about how to cure this (mostly in the context
of page-flags.h).  I don't particularly like the C preprocessor, but
m4 is worse and defining our own preprocessing language seems like a
terrible idea.

So I was thinking about moving the current contents of page-flags.h
to include/src/page-flags.h, making linux/page-flags.h depend on
src/page-flags.h and run '$(CPP) -C' to generate it.  I've been a little
busy recently and haven't had time to do more than muse about this, but
I think it might make sense for some of our more heavily macro-templated
header files.