Message ID | 20211230100723.2238-1-sj@kernel.org (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | Remove the type-unclear target id concept | expand |
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 10:07:19 +0000 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> wrote: > DAMON asks each monitoring target ('struct damon_target') to have one > 'unsigned long' integer called 'id', which should be unique among the > targets of same monitoring context. Meaning of it is, however, totally > up to the monitoring primitives that registered to the monitoring > context. For example, the virtual address spaces monitoring primitives > treats the id as a 'struct pid' pointer. > > This makes the code flexible but ugly, not well-documented, and > type-unsafe[1]. Also, identification of each target can be done via its > index. For the reason, this patchset removes the concept and uses clear > type definition. Thanks. This doesn't appear to be urgent, so I'll park it until after 5.17-rc1.
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 18:20:59 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 10:07:19 +0000 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> wrote: > > > DAMON asks each monitoring target ('struct damon_target') to have one > > 'unsigned long' integer called 'id', which should be unique among the > > targets of same monitoring context. Meaning of it is, however, totally > > up to the monitoring primitives that registered to the monitoring > > context. For example, the virtual address spaces monitoring primitives > > treats the id as a 'struct pid' pointer. > > > > This makes the code flexible but ugly, not well-documented, and > > type-unsafe[1]. Also, identification of each target can be done via its > > index. For the reason, this patchset removes the concept and uses clear > > type definition. > > Thanks. This doesn't appear to be urgent, so I'll park it until after 5.17-rc1. Just for a remind. I confirmed this patchset is cleanly applicable on the latest -next tree. Thanks, SJ