From: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
To: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
kexec mailing list <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
will@kernel.org, Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/17] arm64, hibernate: rename dst to page in create_safe_exec_page
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 11:41:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+CK2bDU9ZZbXsqfEzMV9JDRUq0vMRNHObpQ0q-YtwbEbq702w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e826560-4005-fa16-8bbb-fc0e25763dcc@arm.com>
On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 11:17 AM James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Pavel,
>
> On 21/08/2019 19:31, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> > create_safe_exec_page() allocates a safe page and maps it at a
> > specific location, also this function returns the physical address
> > of newly allocated page.
> >
> > The destination VA, and PA are specified in arguments: dst_addr,
> > phys_dst_addr
> >
> > However, within the function it uses "dst" which has unsigned long
> > type, but is actually a pointers in the current virtual space. This
> > is confusing to read.
>
> The type? There are plenty of places in the kernel that an unsigned-long is actually a
> pointer. This isn't unusual.
>
>
> > Rename dst to more appropriate page (page that is created), and also
> > change its time to "void *"
>
> If you think its clearer,
> Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Thank you for your review.
Pasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-06 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-21 18:31 [PATCH v3 00/17] arm64: MMU enabled kexec relocation Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:31 ` [PATCH v3 01/17] kexec: quiet down kexec reboot Pavel Tatashin
2019-09-06 15:17 ` James Morse
2019-09-06 15:35 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:31 ` [PATCH v3 02/17] arm64, hibernate: use get_safe_page directly Pavel Tatashin
2019-09-06 15:17 ` James Morse
2019-09-06 15:39 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:31 ` [PATCH v3 03/17] arm64, hibernate: remove gotos in create_safe_exec_page Pavel Tatashin
2019-09-06 15:17 ` James Morse
2019-09-06 15:41 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:31 ` [PATCH v3 04/17] arm64, hibernate: rename dst to page " Pavel Tatashin
2019-09-06 15:17 ` James Morse
2019-09-06 15:41 ` Pavel Tatashin [this message]
2019-08-21 18:31 ` [PATCH v3 05/17] arm64, hibernate: check pgd table allocation Pavel Tatashin
2019-09-06 15:17 ` James Morse
2019-09-06 15:44 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:31 ` [PATCH v3 06/17] arm64, hibernate: add trans_pgd public functions Pavel Tatashin
2019-09-06 15:18 ` James Morse
2019-09-06 16:00 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-10-11 18:16 ` James Morse
2019-08-21 18:31 ` [PATCH v3 07/17] arm64, hibernate: move page handling function to new trans_pgd.c Pavel Tatashin
2019-09-06 15:18 ` James Morse
2019-09-06 17:41 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:31 ` [PATCH v3 08/17] arm64, trans_pgd: make trans_pgd_map_page generic Pavel Tatashin
2019-09-06 15:20 ` James Morse
2019-09-06 18:58 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-10-11 18:15 ` James Morse
2019-08-21 18:31 ` [PATCH v3 09/17] arm64, trans_pgd: add trans_pgd_create_empty Pavel Tatashin
2019-09-06 15:20 ` James Morse
2019-09-06 19:00 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:31 ` [PATCH v3 10/17] arm64, trans_pgd: adjust trans_pgd_create_copy interface Pavel Tatashin
2019-09-06 15:20 ` James Morse
2019-09-06 19:03 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:31 ` [PATCH v3 11/17] arm64, trans_pgd: add PUD_SECT_RDONLY Pavel Tatashin
2019-09-06 15:21 ` James Morse
2019-09-06 19:04 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:31 ` [PATCH v3 12/17] arm64, trans_pgd: complete generalization of trans_pgds Pavel Tatashin
2019-09-06 15:23 ` James Morse
2019-09-06 19:06 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:32 ` [PATCH v3 13/17] kexec: add machine_kexec_post_load() Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:32 ` [PATCH v3 14/17] arm64, kexec: move relocation function setup and clean up Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:32 ` [PATCH v3 15/17] arm64, kexec: add expandable argument to relocation function Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:32 ` [PATCH v3 16/17] arm64, kexec: configure trans_pgd page table for kexec Pavel Tatashin
2019-08-21 18:32 ` [PATCH v3 17/17] arm64, kexec: enable MMU during kexec relocation Pavel Tatashin
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