linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dm-verity: fix up various workqueue-related comments

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Message-ID: <CABCJKufDzV+Qz6W2=Mr-Qc4EOawEbbPBSmT=OavLpCgQ_8f7UA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:52:00 -0800
From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc: dm-devel@...ts.linux.dev, Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, 
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>, 
	Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm-verity: fix up various workqueue-related comments

On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 12:27 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Replace obsolete mentions of "tasklets" with "softirq context", and
> "workqueue" with "kworker".

Nit: The patch seems to replace tasklet / BH workqueue references with
just "softirq" instead of "softirq context".

> This reflects the fact that the implementation of the
> "try_verify_in_tasklet" dm-verity option now accesses softirq context
> using either the BH workqueue API or inline execution, not the tasklet
> API.  The old names conflated the API with the intended execution
> context, so they became outdated when the APIs changed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>

Either way, looks cleaner to me:

Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>

Sami