linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] mm/hwpoison: check if a subpage of a hugetlb folio is raw HWPOISON

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Date:   Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:21:16 +0900
From:   Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@...ux.dev>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@...gle.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        mike.kravetz@...cle.com, naoya.horiguchi@....com,
        songmuchun@...edance.com, shy828301@...il.com,
        linmiaohe@...wei.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, duenwen@...gle.com,
        axelrasmussen@...gle.com, jthoughton@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] mm/hwpoison: check if a subpage of a hugetlb
 folio is raw HWPOISON

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.

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."
As for "hwp_walk", another user of "hwp" in in mm/memory-failure.c,
we can easily substitute it with "hwpoison_walk."

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi