linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 3/3] arm64: mte: add compression support to mteswap.c

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Date:   Mon, 13 Nov 2023 11:45:00 +0100
From:   Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To:     Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
Cc:     catalin.marinas@....com, will@...nel.org, pcc@...gle.com,
        andreyknvl@...il.com, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com,
        aleksander.lobakin@...el.com, linux@...musvillemoes.dk,
        alexandru.elisei@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, eugenis@...gle.com,
        syednwaris@...il.com, william.gray@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/3] arm64: mte: add compression support to mteswap.c

> > >
> > >  void mte_free_tag_storage(char *storage)
> >
> > If you use a term 'free' here, the counter name should probably
> > reflect that.
>
> I still want to keep the terms "allocation/deallocation" in the
> user-facing code (in the /sys/ file) though.
> So renaming the counter here will cause a mismatch between its name
> and the stats output.

To move forward, I am going to send out v9 that addresses your
comments except for this one and for moving the conditionals inside
mte_compress() and mte_decompress().
Happy to discuss those three points further.