Re: [PATCH v6 07/11] powerpc/kvm/e500: Use functions to track lockless pgtbl walks
From: Leonardo Bras
Date: Thu Feb 06 2020 - 22:12:02 EST
Hello Christophe,
On Thu, 2020-02-06 at 07:18 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
> I don't really like unbalanced begin/end.
>
> Something like the following would be cleaner:
>
>
> begin_lockless_pgtbl_walk()
> ptep = find()
> if (ptep) {
> pte = READ_ONCE()
> if (pte_present(pte))
> wing=
> else
> ret = -EINVAL;
> }
> end_lockless_pgtbl_walk()
>
> if (ret) {
> pr_err_rate...()
> goto out;
> }
>
>
Sure, looks better that way. I will change that for v7.
Thanks for the feedback,
Leonardo Bras
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