From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 01/11] ftrace/trivial: Clean up recordmcount.c to use Linux style comparisons
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:56:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB1C162.4090109@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DB1BD96.9090205@bitwagon.com>
On 04/22/2011 10:40 AM, John Reiser wrote:
> On 04/22/2011 09:13 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> Although, I have no idea why you choose the 0 < var, that totally
>> confuses me. It does not play any role in assignments. What bug is that
>> preventing? When I want to know if a variable is greater than zero, I
>> don't show it as zero less than the var.
>
> Using ">" can be confused visually with "->", and I want to reduce those
> chances. I also prefer a style that is prefix oriented, and with constants
> on the left. I mentally combine the left constant and the infix operator
> into a special case prefix operator. This speeds my parsing because it
> reduces stack depth and enables faster scanning. This is particularly
> helpful when the constant is narrow and the other operand is wider.
>
I think you will find you're significantly in the minority when it comes
to that preference.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-22 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-21 2:28 [RFC][PATCH 00/11] ftrace/recordmcount: Remove useless mcount calls not being traced Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 01/11] ftrace/trivial: Clean up recordmcount.c to use Linux style comparisons Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 8:46 ` Alan Cox
2011-04-21 11:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 12:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-22 15:09 ` John Reiser
2011-04-22 15:52 ` Thiago Farina
2011-04-22 16:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-26 18:52 ` Thiago Farina
2011-04-26 19:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-22 16:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-22 17:40 ` John Reiser
2011-04-22 17:56 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-05-18 18:31 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:04 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 02/11] ftrace/trivial: Clean up record mcount to use Linux switch style Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:31 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:04 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 03/11] ftrace: Add .kprobe.text section to whitelist for recordmcount.c Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:32 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:05 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 04/11] ftrace/recordmcount: Modify only executable sections Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:32 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:05 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 05/11] ftrace/recordmcount: Make ignored mcount calls into nops at compile time Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:32 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:05 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 06/11] ftrace/recordmcount: Add warning logic to warn on mcount not recorded Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:33 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:06 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 07/11] kbuild/recordmcount: Add RECORDMCOUNT_WARN to warn about mcount callers Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 20:40 ` Michal Marek
2011-04-26 19:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:33 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:06 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 08/11] ftrace: Avoid recording mcount on .init sections directly Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:34 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:07 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 09/11] ftrace/x86: Do not trace .discard.text section Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:34 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:07 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/11] ftrace/recordmcount: Remove duplicate code to find mcount symbol Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:34 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:07 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 2:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 11/11] ftrace/recordmcount: Add helper function get_sym_str_and_relp() Steven Rostedt
2011-05-18 18:35 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2011-06-16 14:08 ` tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
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