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

[Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 08:11:48AM -0700, Jiaqi Yan wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 5:21 PM Naoya Horiguchi
> <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev> 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

This one is fine to me.

> * 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.

Great, thank you.

- Naoya Horiguchi