linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] scsi: convert tasklets to use new tasklet

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Date:   Mon, 17 Aug 2020 12:28:11 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Allen Pais <allen.cryptic@...il.com>, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        kashyap.desai@...adcom.com, sumit.saxena@...adcom.com,
        shivasharan.srikanteshwara@...adcom.com,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, target-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        megaraidlinux.pdl@...adcom.com, Allen Pais <allen.lkml@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] scsi: convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup()

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 07:41:58AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-08-17 at 14:24 +0530, Allen Pais wrote:
> > From: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@...il.com>
> > 
> > Commit 12cc923f1ccc ("tasklet: Introduce new initialization API")'
> > introduced a new tasklet initialization API. This series converts 
> > all the scsi drivers to use the new tasklet_setup() API
> 
> I've got to say I agree with Jens, this was a silly obfuscation:
> 
> +#define from_tasklet(var, callback_tasklet, tasklet_fieldname) \
> +       container_of(callback_tasklet, typeof(*var), tasklet_fieldname)
> 
> Just use container_of directly since we all understand what it does.

But then the lines get really long, wrapped, etc. This is what the
timer_struct conversion did too (added a container_of wrapper), so I
think it makes sense here too.

-- 
Kees Cook