linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 2/5] arm64: Rename unwinder functions

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Date:   Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:15:48 -0600
From:   "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@...ux.microsoft.com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     broonie@...nel.org, jpoimboe@...hat.com, ardb@...nel.org,
        nobuta.keiya@...itsu.com, sjitindarsingh@...il.com,
        catalin.marinas@....com, will@...nel.org, jmorris@...ei.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 2/5] arm64: Rename unwinder functions



On 11/30/21 9:08 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 01:37:20PM -0600, madvenka@...ux.microsoft.com wrote:
>> From: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@...ux.microsoft.com>
>>
>> Rename unwinder functions for consistency and better naming.
>>
>> 	- Rename start_backtrace() to unwind_start().
>> 	- Rename unwind_frame() to unwind_next().
>> 	- Rename walk_stackframe() to unwind().
> 
> Super trivial, but could we s/unwind_start/unwind_init/ ? That makes it
> slightly clearer that it's not performing an unwind step.
> 
> Otherwise, this looks good to me.
> 

Will do.

> For the rename:
> 
> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> 
> It's be nice if we could also clean up 'struct stackframe' into 'struct
> unwind_state', but that can be a follow-up, and this is fine as it is, modulo
> the super trivial comment above.
> 

I could do this rename as well in the next version if you want. Might as well
get all the renaming done in one shot.

Thanks,

Madhavan