Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:42:45 +0800 | From | Baoquan He <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] drivers/base/memory.c: Rename the misleading parameter |
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On 03/26/19 at 04:43am, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 05:02:27PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > > The input parameter 'phys_index' of memory_block_action() is actually > > the section number, but not the phys_index of memory_block. Fix it. > > > static int > > -memory_block_action(unsigned long phys_index, unsigned long action, int online_type) > > +memory_block_action(unsigned long sec, unsigned long action, int online_type) > > 'sec' is a bad abbreviation for 'section'. We don't use it anyhere else > in the vm.
Hmm, here 'sec' is in a particular context, we may not confuse it with other abbreviation. Since Michal also complained about it, seems an update is needed. I will change it to start_section_nr as Michal suggested. Thanks.
> > Looking through include/, I see it used as an abbreviation for second, > security, ELF section, and section of a book. Nowhere as a memory > block section. Please use an extra four letters for this parameter.
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