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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/sparse: add common helper to mark all memblocks present
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:26:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1811072125280.1666@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <724be9bb-59b6-33f3-7b59-3ca644d59bf7@deltatee.com>

Logan,

On Wed, 7 Nov 2018, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> On 2018-11-07 1:12 p.m., Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> +void __init memblocks_present(void)
> >> +{
> >> +	struct memblock_region *reg;
> >> +
> >> +	for_each_memblock(memory, reg) {
> >> +		memory_present(memblock_get_region_node(reg),
> >> +			       memblock_region_memory_base_pfn(reg),
> >> +			       memblock_region_memory_end_pfn(reg));
> >> +	}
> >> +}
> >> +
> > 
> > I don't like the name much.  To me, memblocks_present means "are
> > memblocks present" whereas this actually means "memblocks are present".
> > But whatever.  A little covering comment which describes what this
> > does and why it does it would be nice.
> 
> The same argument can be made about the existing memory_present()
> function and I think it's worth keeping the naming consistent. I'll add
> a comment and resend shortly.

Actually if both names suck, then there also is the option to rename both
instead of adding a comment to explain the suckage.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-07 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-07 17:38 [PATCH 0/2] Introduce common code for risc-v sparsemem support Logan Gunthorpe
2018-11-07 17:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: Introduce common STRUCT_PAGE_MAX_SHIFT define Logan Gunthorpe
2018-11-07 20:11   ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-07 17:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm/sparse: add common helper to mark all memblocks present Logan Gunthorpe
2018-11-07 20:12   ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-07 20:19     ` Logan Gunthorpe
2018-11-07 20:26       ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2018-11-07 20:36         ` Logan Gunthorpe
2018-11-07 20:38           ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-07 20:56             ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-12-06 17:40     ` Logan Gunthorpe
2018-12-07 19:56       ` Andrew Morton

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