linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 6/8] timers/migration: Rename childmask by parentmask to make naming more obvious

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Message-ID: <ZoP2UMF0iAECnbBD@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 14:45:04 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/8] timers/migration: Rename childmask by parentmask
 to make naming more obvious

Le Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 12:18:42PM +0200, Anna-Maria Behnsen a écrit :
> childmask in the group reflects the mask that is required to 'reference'
> this group in the parent. When reading childmask, this might be confusing,
> as this suggests, that this is the mask of the child of the group.

OTOH ->parentmask could suggest this is the mask of the parent of the
group. I'm not sure which one is better. ->childmask never sounded ambiguous
to me so far.

How about ->grpmask ? (deliberately stolen from RCU's node tree).

Thanks.