linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] mm/hwpoison: rename hwp_walk* to hwpoison

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Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2023 09:44:53 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@...gle.com>
CC:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <willy@...radead.org>,
        HORIGUCHI NAOYA <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] mm/hwpoison: rename hwp_walk* to hwpoison_walk*

On 2023/7/14 7:55, Jiaqi Yan wrote:
> In the discussion of "Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages",
> Matthew Wilcox suggests hwp is a bad abbreviation of hwpoison, as hwp
> is already used as "an acronym by acpi, intel_pstate, some clock
> drivers, an ethernet driver, and a scsi driver"[1].
> 
> So rename hwp_walk and hwp_walk_ops to hwpoison_walk and
> hwpoison_walk_ops respectively.
> 
> raw_hwp_(page|list), *_raw_hwp, and raw_hwp_unreliable flag are other
> major appearances of "hwp". However, given the "raw" hint in the name,
> it is easy to differentiate them from other "hwp" acronyms. Since
> renaming them is not as straightforward as renaming hwp_walk*, they
> are not covered by this commit.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230707201904.953262-5-jiaqiyan@google.com/T/#me6fecb8ce1ad4d5769199c9e162a44bc88f7bdec
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@...gle.com>

LGTM. Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>