On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 19:33 +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:00:00PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 16:04 +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
This patch renames lock_cpu_hotplug to cpu_hotplug_disable and
unlock_cpu_hotplug to cpu_hotplug_enable throughout the kernel.
Hi,
to be honest I dislike the new names too. You turned it into a refcount,
which is good, but the normal linux name for such refcount functions is
_get and _put..... and in addition the refcount technically isn't
hotplug specific, all you want is to keep the kernel data for the
processor as being "used", so cpu_get() and cpu_put() would sound
reasonable names to me, or cpu_data_get() cpu_data_put().
Thus, choice of 'cpu_hotplug_disable' and 'cpu_hotplug_enable'
was determined on the basis of its purpose, as in *what* it does as opposed to *how* it does it. :)
well.. it comes down to the difference of locking to protect data versus
locking to protect against a specific piece of code. Almost always the
later turns out to be a mistake...