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

[Jiaqi Yan]

On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 5:21 PM Naoya Horiguchi
<naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Thanks for your comment, Matthew.

> 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."

These are names in my mind, what do you think?
* is_rawhwp_page_in_hugepage
* is_raw_hwpoison_page_in_hugepage // I prefer this one
* folio_test_hugetlb_raw_hwpoison_page

> As for "hwp_walk", another user of "hwp" in in mm/memory-failure.c,
> we can easily substitute it with "hwpoison_walk."

In this "hwp_walk" case, I also prefer "hwpoison" than "hwp". I can
create a separate renaming patch.

>
> Thanks,
> Naoya Horiguchi