From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>, "Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>,
"Julien Grall" <julien.grall.oss@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen: Introduce a xmemdup_bytes() helper
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:47:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85555ad1-4def-c4c5-a9fb-0cace3a13166@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f95b8d56-5f62-b3f2-4ec3-46f1b47ddb48@citrix.com>
On 26.03.2020 16:38, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 23/03/2020 08:38, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 21.03.2020 23:19, Julien Grall wrote:
>>> On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 21:26, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
>>>> --- a/xen/include/xen/xmalloc.h
>>>> +++ b/xen/include/xen/xmalloc.h
>>>> @@ -51,6 +51,17 @@
>>>> #define xmalloc_bytes(_bytes) _xmalloc(_bytes, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
>>>> #define xzalloc_bytes(_bytes) _xzalloc(_bytes, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
>>>>
>>>> +/* Allocate untyped storage and copying an existing instance. */
>>>> +#define xmemdup_bytes(_src, _nr) \
>>>> + ({ \
>>>> + unsigned long nr_ = (_nr); \
>>>> + void *dst_ = xmalloc_bytes(nr_); \
>>> The nr_ vs _nr is really confusing to read. Could you re-implement the
>>> function as a static inline?
>> And even if that wouldn't work out - what's the point of having
>> macro argument names with leading underscores?
>
> Consistency with all the other code in this file.
I value consistency quite high, but then please consistent with
something that properly follows other rules.
>> This isn't any
>> better standard-wise (afaict) than other uses of leading
>> underscores for identifiers which aren't CU-scope.
>
> It is a parameter describing textural replacement within the body.
> There is 0 interaction with external namespacing standards.
Please forgive me saying so, but a typical reply I might get back
from you would be: And?
I'm not going to insist nor nak the patch, but I don't welcome
widening existing issues we have.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-26 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-20 21:24 [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] x86/ucode: Cleanup - Part 2/n Andrew Cooper
2020-03-20 21:24 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] x86/ucode/amd: Fix assertion in compare_patch() Andrew Cooper
2020-03-21 16:45 ` Wei Liu
2020-03-20 21:24 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/4] x86/ucode: Fix error paths in apply_microcode() Andrew Cooper
2020-03-21 16:49 ` Wei Liu
2020-03-23 8:32 ` Jan Beulich
2020-03-20 21:24 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] xen: Drop raw_smp_processor_id() Andrew Cooper
2020-03-21 10:14 ` Julien Grall
2020-03-21 16:50 ` Wei Liu
2020-03-20 21:24 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen: Introduce a xmemdup_bytes() helper Andrew Cooper
2020-03-21 16:51 ` Wei Liu
2020-03-21 22:19 ` Julien Grall
2020-03-23 8:38 ` Jan Beulich
2020-03-26 15:38 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-03-26 15:47 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2020-03-26 14:53 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-03-26 19:05 ` Julien Grall
2020-03-23 8:41 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] x86/ucode: Cleanup - Part 2/n Jan Beulich
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