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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: "Longpeng(Mike)" <longpeng2@huawei.com>
Cc: mike.kravetz@oracle.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
arei.gonglei@huawei.com, weidong.huang@huawei.com,
weifuqiang@huawei.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: avoid get wrong ptep caused by race
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:52:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200218205239.GE24185@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1582027825-112728-1-git-send-email-longpeng2@huawei.com>
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 08:10:25PM +0800, Longpeng(Mike) wrote:
> {
> - pgd_t *pgd;
> - p4d_t *p4d;
> - pud_t *pud;
> - pmd_t *pmd;
> + pgd_t *pgdp;
> + p4d_t *p4dp;
> + pud_t *pudp, pud;
> + pmd_t *pmdp, pmd;
Renaming the variables as part of a fix is a really bad idea. It obscures
the actual fix and makes everybody's life harder. Plus, it's not even
renaming to follow the normal convention -- there are only two places
(migrate.c and gup.c) which follow this pattern in mm/ while there are
33 that do not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-18 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-18 12:10 Longpeng(Mike)
2020-02-18 20:37 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-19 0:51 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-02-19 1:39 ` Longpeng (Mike)
2020-02-19 1:58 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-19 12:21 ` Longpeng (Mike)
2020-02-19 16:22 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-20 2:32 ` Longpeng (Mike)
2020-02-19 19:33 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-02-20 2:30 ` Longpeng (Mike)
2020-02-21 0:22 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-02-22 2:15 ` Longpeng (Mike)
2020-02-18 20:52 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-02-19 2:09 ` Longpeng (Mike)
2020-02-19 3:49 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-02-19 12:52 ` Longpeng (Mike)
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