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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:11:48 -0700
From: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@...gle.com>
To: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@...ux.dev>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] mm/hwpoison: check if a subpage of a hugetlb folio
is raw HWPOISON
On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 5:21 PM Naoya Horiguchi
<naoya.horiguchi@...ux.dev> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 09:31:39PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 08:19:02PM +0000, Jiaqi Yan wrote:
> > > Add the functionality, is_raw_hwp_subpage, to tell if a subpage of a
> >
> > This is incorrect naming. "subpage" was needed before we had the
> > folio concept, but it should not be used any more. We have folios
> > and pages now.
>
Thanks for your comment, Matthew.
> I think we can address the raw hwpoison page by the offset in folio/hugepage
> to eliminate the concept of "subpage".
>
> >
> > Also, abbreviating "hwpoison" as "hwp" seems like a bad idea to me.
> > hwp is already used as an acronym by acpi, intel_pstate, some clock
> > drivers, an ethernet driver, and a scsi driver.
>
> I originally introduced the abbreviation "hwp" to avoid using a lengthy
> function name such as "folio_test_hugetlb_raw_hwpoison_unreliable()."
> Therefore, I prefer using "rawhwp" instead of a longer form like
> "raw_hwpoison," although I don't expect any confusion between "hwp" and
> "rawhwp."
These are names in my mind, what do you think?
* is_rawhwp_page_in_hugepage
* is_raw_hwpoison_page_in_hugepage // I prefer this one
* folio_test_hugetlb_raw_hwpoison_page
> As for "hwp_walk", another user of "hwp" in in mm/memory-failure.c,
> we can easily substitute it with "hwpoison_walk."
In this "hwp_walk" case, I also prefer "hwpoison" than "hwp". I can
create a separate renaming patch.
>
> Thanks,
> Naoya Horiguchi
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