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SubjectRe: [PATCH] dyn_array: using %pF instead of print_fn_descriptor_symbol
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:32:58 -0700
"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:07:49 -0700
> > Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> + printk(KERN_DEBUG "per_cpu_dyn_array %pF ==> [%#lx - %#lx]\n",
> >> + da->name, phys, phys + size);
> >
> > This:
> >
> > struct dyn_array {
> > void **name;
> >
> > is a bit confusing. One normally expects a variable called "name" to
> > point at a character string.
> >
> > What _does_ this thing point at? There are no code comments which I
> > can find, it's unobvious from the source code, the type is the
> > information-free void** and the identifier is misleading.
> >
> > I find that documenting the data structures is the best way of making
> > code understandable (and hence maintainable).
>
> struct dyn_array {
> void **name;
> unsigned long size;
> unsigned int *nr;
> unsigned long align;
> void (*init_work)(void *);
> };
> extern struct dyn_array *__dyn_array_start[], *__dyn_array_end[];
> extern struct dyn_array *__per_cpu_dyn_array_start[],
> *__per_cpu_dyn_array_end[];
>
> #define DEFINE_DYN_ARRAY_ADDR(nameX, addrX, sizeX, nrX, alignX, init_workX) \
> static struct dyn_array __dyn_array_##nameX __initdata = \
> { .name = (void **)&(nameX),\
> .size = sizeX,\
> .nr = &(nrX),\
> .align = alignX,\
> .init_work = init_workX,\
> }; \
> static struct dyn_array *__dyn_array_ptr_##nameX __used \
> __attribute__((__section__(".dyn_array.init"))) = \
> &__dyn_array_##nameX
>
> #define DEFINE_DYN_ARRAY(nameX, sizeX, nrX, alignX, init_workX) \
> DEFINE_DYN_ARRAY_ADDR(nameX, nameX, sizeX, nrX, alignX, init_workX)
>
> and use is
>
> struct irq_desc *sparse_irqs;
> DEFINE_DYN_ARRAY(sparse_irqs, sizeof(struct irq_desc), nr_irq_desc,
> PAGE_SIZE, init_work);
>
>
> then sparse_irqs is pointer, and .name store the address of that pointer.
>
> later use
> *da->name = phys_to_virt(phys);
> to take back the dyn address.
>

Well yes, I have a copy of that too.

Why is it called "name"?



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