From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 12:48:34 -0700 From: Kees Cook Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup() API Message-ID: <202008171246.80287CDCA@keescook> References: <20200817091617.28119-1-allen.cryptic@gmail.com> <20200817091617.28119-2-allen.cryptic@gmail.com> <202008171228.29E6B3BB@keescook> <161b75f1-4e88-dcdf-42e8-b22504d7525c@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <161b75f1-4e88-dcdf-42e8-b22504d7525c@kernel.dk> Sender: linux-spi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Axboe Cc: Allen Pais , jdike@addtoit.com, richard@nod.at, anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com, 3chas3@gmail.com, stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, airlied@linux.ie, daniel@ffwll.ch, sre@kernel.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, kys@microsoft.com, deller@gmx.de, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, jassisinghbrar@gmail.com, shawnguo@kernel.org, s.hauer@pengutronix.de, maximlevitsky@gmail.com, oakad@yahoo.com, ulf.hansson@linaro.org, mporter@kernel.crashing.org, alex.bou9@gmail.com, broonie@kernel.org, martyn@welchs.me.uk, manohar.vanga@gmail.com, mitch@sfgoth.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-ntb@googlegroups.com, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Allen Pais , Romain Perier List-ID: On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 12:44:34PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 8/17/20 12:29 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 06:56:47AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: > >> On 8/17/20 2:15 AM, Allen Pais wrote: > >>> From: Allen Pais > >>> > >>> In preparation for unconditionally passing the > >>> struct tasklet_struct pointer to all tasklet > >>> callbacks, switch to using the new tasklet_setup() > >>> and from_tasklet() to pass the tasklet pointer explicitly. > >> > >> Who came up with the idea to add a macro 'from_tasklet' that is just > >> container_of? container_of in the code would be _much_ more readable, > >> and not leave anyone guessing wtf from_tasklet is doing. > >> > >> I'd fix that up now before everything else goes in... > > > > As I mentioned in the other thread, I think this makes things much more > > readable. It's the same thing that the timer_struct conversion did > > (added a container_of wrapper) to avoid the ever-repeating use of > > typeof(), long lines, etc. > > But then it should use a generic name, instead of each sub-system using > some random name that makes people look up exactly what it does. I'm not > huge fan of the container_of() redundancy, but adding private variants > of this doesn't seem like the best way forward. Let's have a generic > helper that does this, and use it everywhere. I'm open to suggestions, but as things stand, these kinds of treewide changes end up getting whole-release delays because of the need to have the API in place for everyone before patches to do the changes can be sent to multiple maintainers, etc. -- Kees Cook