linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/shmem.c: use helper transhuge_vma

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Date:   Sat, 11 Jun 2022 14:32:30 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
CC:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/shmem.c: use helper transhuge_vma_enabled()

On 2022/6/11 11:14, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2022, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> 
>> Use helper transhuge_vma_enabled() to check whether transhuge is enable
>> on vma. Minor readability improvement.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
> 
> No thanks, that's a readability regression, forcing reader
> to go and look up what transhuge_vma_enabled() actually means.
> 
> What you call a helper, I call an obfuscator - as I implied in
> b9e2faaf6fa0 ("huge tmpfs: revert shmem's use of transhuge_vma_enabled()")

Oh, that commit also cc to me. But I forgot it... Sorry.

> 
> Hugh
>