Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1] bpf,arena: Rename the kfunc set variable

From: Andrii Nakryiko
Date: Tue May 07 2024 - 12:48:54 EST


On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 7:36 AM Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 7:46 PM Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Rename the kfunc set variable to specify the 'arena' function scope,
> > although the 'UNSPEC' type BPF program is mapped to 'COMMON' hook.
> >
> > And there is 'common_kfunc_set' defined for real 'common' function in
> > file 'kernel/bpf/helpers.c'.
>
> I think common_kfunc_set is a better name to describe that these
> two kfuncs are in a common category.
> BPF_PROG_TYPE_UNSPEC is a lot less obvious.
>
> There are two static common_kfunc_set in helpers.c and arena.c
> and that's fine.

it is actually confusing when reading/grepping code, though, so why
not have arena_common_kfunc_set and whatever the meaningful
"qualifier" name for the other one?

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> pw-bot: cr