Re: [PATCH 3/3] rust: sync: Add IrqSpinLock

[Lyude Paul]

On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 09:48 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:27:52PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > A variant of SpinLock that is expected to be used in noirq contexts, and
> > thus requires that the user provide an kernel::irq::IrqDisabled to prove
> > they are in such a context upon lock acquisition. This is the rust
> > equivalent of spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_lock_irqrestore().
> 
> So aside from the horrendous camel-case thing, why are you naming this
> thing the wrong way around? Shouldn't it be SpinLockIrq rather than
> IrqSpinLock? Or possibly even SpinLockIrqSave?
> 
> Randomly changing the names of things isn't going to make it any easier
> for people to use this stuff.

Yeah you're probably right - I'll fix this on the next iteration

> 

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Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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