Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] mm/hwpoison: check if a subpage of a hugetlb folio is raw HWPOISON

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Sun Jul 09 2023 - 20:21:33 EST


On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 09:31:39PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 08:19:02PM +0000, Jiaqi Yan wrote:
> > Add the functionality, is_raw_hwp_subpage, to tell if a subpage of a
>
> This is incorrect naming. "subpage" was needed before we had the
> folio concept, but it should not be used any more. We have folios
> and pages now.

I think we can address the raw hwpoison page by the offset in folio/hugepage
to eliminate the concept of "subpage".

>
> Also, abbreviating "hwpoison" as "hwp" seems like a bad idea to me.
> hwp is already used as an acronym by acpi, intel_pstate, some clock
> drivers, an ethernet driver, and a scsi driver.

I originally introduced the abbreviation "hwp" to avoid using a lengthy
function name such as "folio_test_hugetlb_raw_hwpoison_unreliable()."
Therefore, I prefer using "rawhwp" instead of a longer form like
"raw_hwpoison," although I don't expect any confusion between "hwp" and
"rawhwp."
As for "hwp_walk", another user of "hwp" in in mm/memory-failure.c,
we can easily substitute it with "hwpoison_walk."

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi