linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel/cpu: fix spelling mistake of cpuhp_thread

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Date:   Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:11:11 +0800
From:   Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>
To:     ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Yuan ZhaoXiong <yuanzhaoxiong@...du.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/cpu: fix spelling mistake of cpuhp_thread_run()

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 2:50 PM Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Pingfan,
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 03:07:07PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > According to the name of cpuhp_should_run(), cpuhp_thread_fun() should
> > be a spelling mistake.
>
> I think cpuhp_thread_fun() is short for "CPU Hotplug thread
> function". It seems correct since the function pointer "thread_fn"
> (short for "Thread function") in the struct "smp_hotplug_thread
> cpuhp_threads" is assigned the value cpuhp_thread_fun().
>
This makes sense to me.

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Pingfan