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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Change to use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE macro
Hi Dava:

How about just change the ptdump_fops and ptdump_open?

Yours,
Yangtao
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 1:06 AM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/19/18 7:43 AM, Yangtao Li wrote:
> > -static const struct file_operations ptdump_curusr_fops = {
> > - .owner = THIS_MODULE,
> > - .open = ptdump_open_curusr,
> > - .read = seq_read,
> > - .llseek = seq_lseek,
> > - .release = single_release,
> > -};
> > +DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(ptdump_curusr);
>
> FWIW, I rather dislike this conversion and the DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE()
> approach in general. It makes it basically impossible to go from
> ptdump_curusr to ptdump_open_curusr without opening up the macro and
> reverse-engineering it.
>
> My test is that for these macros to be sane, I need to be able to find
> "ptdump_open_curusr" by grepping for "ptdump_curusr". This fails the test.
>
> I don't think saving a few lines of code is worth the obfuscation.

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