Re: [PATCH] uprobes/x86: Rename arch_uprobe->def into ->dflt, minor comment updates

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jun 03 2014 - 14:39:29 EST



* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 06/03, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uprobes.h
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uprobes.h
> > > @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ struct arch_uprobe {
> > > struct {
> > > u8 fixups;
> > > u8 ilen;
> > > - } def;
> > > + } dflt;
> >
> > Pls lts nt use slly abbrvtns, ok?
>
> OK. As I said in the previous dicussion, I agree with any naming.
>
> > How about arch_uprobe->default?
>
> And this is how it was named when I wrote this code. Unfortunately gcc
> dislikes this name ;) So I renamed it to ->def. Then I was asked to
> rename it and I agree, ->def doesn't look good.
>
> Could you suggest something better?

So exactly what do those fields do? If it's scratch register handling,
would it be logical to name it arch_uprobe->scratch, or so?

Thanks,

Ingo
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