[RFC V3] mm: Generalize and rename notify_page_fault() as kprobe_page_fault()

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Mon Jun 10 15:06:32 AEST 2019



On 06/10/2019 10:27 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 6/9/19 9:34 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>> Do you really think this is easier to read?
>>>
>>> Why not just move the x86 version to include/linux/kprobes.h, and replace
>>> the int with bool?
>> Will just return bool directly without an additional variable here as suggested
>> before. But for the conditional statement, I guess the proposed one here is more
>> compact than the x86 one.
> 
> FWIW, I don't think "compact" is generally a good goal for code.  Being
> readable is 100x more important than being compact and being un-compact
> is only a problem when it hurts readability.
> 
> For a function like the one in question, having the individual return
> conditions clearly commented is way more important than saving 10 lines
> of code.

Fair enough. Will keep the existing code flow from x86.


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