From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/asm/entry/64: Rename THREAD_INFO() to ASM_ASM_THREAD_INFO_MEMOP()
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:24:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150324192410.GE11525@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150324184442.GC14760@gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 07:44:42PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> From 234ed7356ecfa60f4e209d513d89fa9de41aa4c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:29:16 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/asm/entry/64: Rename THREAD_INFO() to ASM_ASM_THREAD_INFO_MEMOP()
>
> The THREAD_INFO() macro has a somewhat confusingly generic name, defined in
> a generic .h C header file. It also does not make it clear that it constructs
> a memory operand for use in assembly code.
>
> Rename it to ASM_THREAD_INFO_MEMOP() to make it all glaringly obvious on
> first glance.
Why the MEMOP?
ASM_THREAD_INFO() looks pretty enough to me. :)
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Boris.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-19 17:17 [PATCH 1/5] x86: change THREAD_INFO definition to not depend on KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86: get rid of KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-20 16:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-03-25 9:10 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry: Get " tip-bot for Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86/entry_64.S: use PUSH insns to build pt_regs on stack Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-20 16:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-03-25 9:11 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry/64: Use PUSH instructions " tip-bot for Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86/entry_64.S: get rid of FIXUP_TOP_OF_STACK/RESTORE_TOP_OF_STACK Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-20 16:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-03-25 9:11 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry/64: Get rid of the FIXUP_TOP_OF_STACK /RESTORE_TOP_OF_STACK macros tip-bot for Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86/entry_64.S: get rid of int_ret_from_sys_call_fixup Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-20 16:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-03-25 9:11 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry/64: Get " tip-bot for Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-20 10:30 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86: change THREAD_INFO definition to not depend on KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET Borislav Petkov
2015-03-20 22:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-24 18:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-24 18:43 ` [PATCH] x86/asm/entry/64: Improve the THREAD_INFO() macro explanation Ingo Molnar
2015-03-24 18:50 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-24 19:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-24 19:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-03-25 9:12 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2015-03-24 18:44 ` [PATCH] x86/asm/entry/64: Merge the field offset into the THREAD_INFO() macro Ingo Molnar
2015-03-24 18:50 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-24 19:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-24 19:34 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-03-24 19:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-25 9:12 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2015-03-24 18:44 ` [PATCH] x86/asm/entry/64: Rename THREAD_INFO() to ASM_ASM_THREAD_INFO_MEMOP() Ingo Molnar
2015-03-24 19:24 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-03-24 19:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-25 9:13 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry/64: Rename THREAD_INFO() to ASM_THREAD_INFO() tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2015-03-25 9:10 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry/64: Change the THREAD_INFO() definition to not depend on KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET tip-bot for Denys Vlasenko
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