linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] mm/gup: consistently call it GUP-fast

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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:21:40 -0400
From: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, loongarch@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
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	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] mm/gup: consistently call it GUP-fast

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 02:05:35PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Some cleanups around function names, comments and the config option of
> "GUP-fast" -- GUP without "lock" safety belts on.
> 
> With this cleanup it's easy to judge which functions are GUP-fast specific.
> We now consistently call it "GUP-fast", avoiding mixing it with "fast GUP",
> "lockless", or simply "gup" (which I always considered confusing in the
> ode).
> 
> So the magic now happens in functions that contain "gup_fast", whereby
> gup_fast() is the entry point into that magic. Comments consistently
> reference either "GUP-fast" or "gup_fast()".
> 
> Based on mm-unstable from today. I won't CC arch maintainers, but only
> arch mailing lists, to reduce noise.
> 
> Tested on x86_64, cross compiled on a bunch of archs, whereby some of them
> don't properly even compile on mm-unstable anymore in my usual setup
> (alpha, arc, parisc64, sh) ... maybe the cross compilers are outdated,
> but there are no new ones around. Hm.

I'm not sure what config you tried there; as I am doing some build tests
recently, I found turning off CONFIG_SAMPLES + CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS could
avoid a lot of issues, I think it's due to libc missing.  But maybe not the
case there.

The series makes sense to me, the naming is confusing.  Btw, thanks for
posting this as RFC. This definitely has a conflict with the other gup
series that I had; I'll post v4 of that shortly.

-- 
Peter Xu