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[PATCH] Rename struct task variables from p to tsk

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Eric B Munson

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Jan 12, 2011, 10:20:02 AM1/12/11
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p is not a meaningful identifier, this patch replaces all instances
in page_alloc.c of p when used as a struct task with the more useful
tsk.

Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emu...@mgebm.net>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index ff7e158..acfbb20 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1852,23 +1852,23 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
{
struct page *page = NULL;
struct reclaim_state reclaim_state;
- struct task_struct *p = current;
+ struct task_struct *tsk = current;
bool drained = false;

cond_resched();

/* We now go into synchronous reclaim */
cpuset_memory_pressure_bump();
- p->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
+ tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(gfp_mask);
reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0;
- p->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
+ tsk->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;

*did_some_progress = try_to_free_pages(zonelist, order, gfp_mask, nodemask);

- p->reclaim_state = NULL;
+ tsk->reclaim_state = NULL;
lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state();
- p->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
+ tsk->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;

cond_resched();

@@ -1932,7 +1932,7 @@ void wake_all_kswapd(unsigned int order, struct zonelist *zonelist,
static inline int
gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
- struct task_struct *p = current;
+ struct task_struct *tsk = current;
int alloc_flags = ALLOC_WMARK_MIN | ALLOC_CPUSET;
const gfp_t wait = gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT;

@@ -1954,12 +1954,12 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
* See also cpuset_zone_allowed() comment in kernel/cpuset.c.
*/
alloc_flags &= ~ALLOC_CPUSET;
- } else if (unlikely(rt_task(p)) && !in_interrupt())
+ } else if (unlikely(rt_task(tsk)) && !in_interrupt())
alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;

if (likely(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC))) {
if (!in_interrupt() &&
- ((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) ||
+ ((tsk->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) ||
unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))))
alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS;
}
@@ -1978,7 +1978,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
int alloc_flags;
unsigned long pages_reclaimed = 0;
unsigned long did_some_progress;
- struct task_struct *p = current;
+ struct task_struct *tsk = current;

/*
* In the slowpath, we sanity check order to avoid ever trying to
@@ -2034,7 +2034,7 @@ rebalance:
goto nopage;

/* Avoid recursion of direct reclaim */
- if (p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)
+ if (tsk->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)
goto nopage;

/* Avoid allocations with no watermarks from looping endlessly */
@@ -2108,7 +2108,7 @@ nopage:
if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) && printk_ratelimit()) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: page allocation failure."
" order:%d, mode:0x%x\n",
- p->comm, order, gfp_mask);
+ tsk->comm, order, gfp_mask);
dump_stack();
show_mem();
}
--
1.7.1

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Christoph Lameter

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Jan 12, 2011, 1:10:02 PM1/12/11
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Use t instead of p? Its a local variable after all.

Eric B Munson

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Jan 12, 2011, 3:20:02 PM1/12/11
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:

>
> Use t instead of p? Its a local variable after all.
>
>

I don't find t any more informative than p. As a newcomer to most of this code
informative variable names, even for local variables, is a huge help.

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David Rientjes

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Jan 12, 2011, 3:20:02 PM1/12/11
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Eric B Munson wrote:

> p is not a meaningful identifier, this patch replaces all instances
> in page_alloc.c of p when used as a struct task with the more useful
> tsk.
>

mm-page_allocc-dont-cache-current-in-a-local.patch removes all of the
stack allocations changed in this patch, so it's not needed.

Christoph Lameter

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Jan 12, 2011, 3:30:01 PM1/12/11
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Local variables are short because they are defined close to the point of
use.

tsk is not that informative and the notion of a "task" can refer to
various. However, when I see

struct task_struct *t;

I know what it refers to.

Minchan Kim

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Jan 12, 2011, 6:20:02 PM1/12/11
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Eric B Munson <emu...@mgebm.net> wrote:
> p is not a meaningful identifier, this patch replaces all instances
> in page_alloc.c of p when used as a struct task with the more useful
> tsk.
>

Yesterday, Andrew raise an eyebrow about that.
His simple lookup found below.

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On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:03:22 -0800 (PST)
Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Andrew Morton wrote:
< snip >
> > Oh, and since when did we use `p' to identify task_structs?
>
> Tsk, tsk: we've been using `p' for task_structs for years and years!

Only bad people do that. "p". Really?

z:/usr/src/linux-2.6.37> grep -r " \*p;" . | wc -l
2329
z:/usr/src/linux-2.6.37> grep -r "task_struct \*p" . | wc -l
824

bah.

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How about cleaning up everything in this chance?


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Minchan Kim

Huang Shijie

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Jan 12, 2011, 10:30:02 PM1/12/11
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> p is not a meaningful identifier, this patch replaces all instances
> in page_alloc.c of p when used as a struct task with the more useful
> tsk.
>
I also think `p` is good enough. The `tsk` feels cold.


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