Re: [PATCH 00/13] Rename k[v]free_rcu() single argument to k[v]free_rcu_mightsleep()

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed,  1 Feb 2023 16:08:06 +0100
"Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This small series is based on Paul's "dev" branch. Head is 6002817348a1c610dc1b1c01ff81654cdec12be4
> it renames a single argument of k[v]free_rcu() to its new k[v]free_rcu_mightsleep() name.
> 
> 1.
> The problem is that, recently we have run into a precedent when
> a user intended to give a second argument to kfree_rcu() API but
> forgot to do it in a code so a call became as a single argument
> of kfree_rcu() API.
> 
> 2.
> Such mistyping can lead to hidden bags where sleeping is forbidden.
> 
> 3.
> _mightsleep() prefix gives much more information for which contexts
> it can be used for.

My honest opinion is that I hate that name "kvfree_rcu_mightsleep()" ;-)

As I honestly don't know why it might sleep.

I didn't care about the name before, but now that it's touching code I
maintain I do care ;-)

Why not call it:

 kvfree_rcu_synchronize()

?

As that is much more descriptive of what it does. Especially since these
ugly names are popping up in my code because kvfree_rcu() replaced a
rcu_synchronize() in the first place.

-- Steve