Re: [PATCH v3 04/17] arm64, hibernate: rename dst to page in create_safe_exec_page

From: James Morse
Date: Fri Sep 06 2019 - 11:17:45 EST


Hi Pavel,

On 21/08/2019 19:31, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> create_safe_exec_page() allocates a safe page and maps it at a
> specific location, also this function returns the physical address
> of newly allocated page.
>
> The destination VA, and PA are specified in arguments: dst_addr,
> phys_dst_addr
>
> However, within the function it uses "dst" which has unsigned long
> type, but is actually a pointers in the current virtual space. This
> is confusing to read.

The type? There are plenty of places in the kernel that an unsigned-long is actually a
pointer. This isn't unusual.


> Rename dst to more appropriate page (page that is created), and also
> change its time to "void *"

If you think its clearer,
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>


Thanks,

James