Re: [PATCH 4/4] softirq: no need to have SOFTIRQ in softirq name

[Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 01:04 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> plain text document attachment
> (0004-softirq-no-need-to-have-SOFTIRQ-in-softirq-name.patch)
> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> 
> Impact: clean up
> 
> It is redundant to have 'SOFTIRQ' in the softirq names.
> 
> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> ---
>  kernel/softirq.c |    5 ++---
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
> index a5e8123..65ff3e3 100644
> --- a/kernel/softirq.c
> +++ b/kernel/softirq.c
> @@ -55,9 +55,8 @@ static struct softirq_action softirq_vec[NR_SOFTIRQS] __cacheline_aligned_in_smp
>  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, ksoftirqd);
>  
>  char *softirq_to_name[NR_SOFTIRQS] = {
> -	"HI_SOFTIRQ", "TIMER_SOFTIRQ", "NET_TX_SOFTIRQ", "NET_RX_SOFTIRQ",
> -	"BLOCK_SOFTIRQ", "TASKLET_SOFTIRQ", "SCHED_SOFTIRQ", "HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ",
> -	"RCU_SOFTIRQ"
> +	"HI", "TIMER", "NET_TX", "NET_RX", "BLOCK",
> +	"TASKLET", "SCHED", "HRTIMER",	"RCU"
>  };
>  

This will look more better:

+	"HI",		"TIMER",	"NET_TX",
+	"NET_RX",	"BLOCK",	"TASKLET",
+	"SCHED",	"HRTIMER",	"RCU"

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JSR