linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH printk v1 01/13] printk: rename cpulock functions

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Date:   Mon, 14 Feb 2022 10:51:18 +0106
From:   John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH printk v1 01/13] printk: rename cpulock functions

On 2022-02-14, Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org> wrote:
> printk has been using enter/exit naming for a while now (starting with
> nmi enter/exit, then printk_safe enter/exit and soon direct
> enter/exit); so may be we can follow suit here and use
> printk_cpu_sync_enter() and printk_cpu_sync_exit()?

I like this suggestion. So it would be:

printk_cpu_sync_enter_irqsave()
printk_cpu_sync_exit_irqrestore()