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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	davem@davemloft.net,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	mingo@redhat.com, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	paul.burton@mips.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 07/29] memblock: remove _virt from APIs returning virtual address
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 09:28:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180906072800.GN14951@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180905172017.GA2203@rapoport-lnx>

On Wed 05-09-18 20:20:18, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 12:04:36PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:00 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The conversion is done using
> > >
> > > sed -i 's@memblock_virt_alloc@memblock_alloc@g' \
> > >         $(git grep -l memblock_virt_alloc)
> > 
> > What's the reason to do this? It seems like a lot of churn even if a
> > mechanical change.
> 
> I felt that memblock_virt_alloc_ is too long for a prefix, e.g:
> memblock_virt_alloc_node_nopanic, memblock_virt_alloc_low_nopanic.
> 
> And for consistency I've changed the memblock_virt_alloc as well.

I would keep the current API unless the name is terribly misleading or
it can be improved a lot. Neither seems to be the case here. So I would
rather stick with the status quo.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-06  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-05 15:59 [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator Mike Rapoport
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 01/29] mips: switch to NO_BOOTMEM Mike Rapoport
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 02/29] mm: remove CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM Mike Rapoport
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 03/29] mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK Mike Rapoport
2018-09-19  9:04   ` Jonathan Cameron
2018-09-19 10:34     ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-19 10:45       ` Jonathan Cameron
2018-09-19 10:55         ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 04/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator implementation Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  7:30   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-06  8:31     ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 05/29] mm: nobootmem: remove dead code Mike Rapoport
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 06/29] memblock: rename memblock_alloc{_nid,_try_nid} to memblock_phys_alloc* Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  7:35   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 07/29] memblock: remove _virt from APIs returning virtual address Mike Rapoport
2018-09-05 17:04   ` Rob Herring
2018-09-05 17:20     ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  7:28       ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-09-06 12:43         ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06 13:01           ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-06 13:39             ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06 13:46               ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-07  8:42                 ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-07  8:47                   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-07  9:19                     ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 08/29] memblock: replace alloc_bootmem_align with memblock_alloc Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  7:39   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 09/29] memblock: replace alloc_bootmem_low with memblock_alloc_low Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  7:41   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 10/29] memblock: replace __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic with memblock_alloc_try_nid_nopanic Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  7:49   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 11/29] memblock: replace alloc_bootmem_pages_nopanic with memblock_alloc_nopanic Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  7:53   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 12/29] memblock: replace alloc_bootmem_low with memblock_alloc_low Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  7:55   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 13/29] memblock: replace __alloc_bootmem_nopanic with memblock_alloc_from_nopanic Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  7:57   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-06 12:44     ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 14/29] memblock: add align parameter to memblock_alloc_node() Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  8:06   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-06 12:49     ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 15/29] memblock: replace alloc_bootmem_pages_node with memblock_alloc_node Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  8:08   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 16/29] memblock: replace __alloc_bootmem_node with appropriate memblock_ API Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  8:38   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-06 12:50     ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 17/29] memblock: replace alloc_bootmem_node with memblock_alloc_node Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  8:41   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 18/29] memblock: replace alloc_bootmem_low_pages with memblock_alloc_low Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  8:43   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 19/29] memblock: replace alloc_bootmem_pages with memblock_alloc Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  8:44   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 20/29] memblock: replace __alloc_bootmem with memblock_alloc_from Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  8:52   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-06 12:58     ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 21/29] memblock: replace alloc_bootmem with memblock_alloc Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  8:55   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-06 13:14     ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 22/29] mm: nobootmem: remove bootmem allocation APIs Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  8:56   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 23/29] memblock: replace free_bootmem{_node} with memblock_free Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  8:57   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 24/29] memblock: replace free_bootmem_late with memblock_free_late Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  9:02   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 25/29] memblock: rename free_all_bootmem to memblock_free_all Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  9:04   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 26/29] memblock: rename __free_pages_bootmem to memblock_free_pages Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  9:06   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 27/29] mm: remove nobootmem Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  9:08   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 28/29] memblock: replace BOOTMEM_ALLOC_* with MEMBLOCK variants Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  9:08   ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH 29/29] mm: remove include/linux/bootmem.h Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  2:33 ` [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator Greentime Hu
2018-09-06 13:30   ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06  9:15 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-06 13:04   ` Pasha Tatashin
2018-09-06 13:21     ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-06 13:16   ` Mike Rapoport

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