Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm/hugetlb.c: Fix typo of glb_reserve

From: Mike Kravetz
Date: Mon Jul 20 2020 - 18:34:51 EST


On 7/19/20 11:26 PM, Baoquan He wrote:
> The local variable is for global reservation of region.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/hugetlb.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index f24acb3af741..191a585bb315 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -3649,7 +3649,7 @@ static void hugetlb_vm_op_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> struct resv_map *resv = vma_resv_map(vma);
> struct hugepage_subpool *spool = subpool_vma(vma);
> unsigned long reserve, start, end;
> - long gbl_reserve;
> + long glb_reserve;

I see both 'gbl' and 'glb' being used for global in variable names. grep will
actually return more hits for gbl than glb. Unless there is consensus that
'glb' should be used for global, I would prefer not to make this change.

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Mike Kravetz