Re: [PATCH] block: convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup() API

[Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/17/20 12:29 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 06:56:47AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 8/17/20 2:15 AM, Allen Pais wrote:
>>> From: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> In preparation for unconditionally passing the
>>> struct tasklet_struct pointer to all tasklet
>>> callbacks, switch to using the new tasklet_setup()
>>> and from_tasklet() to pass the tasklet pointer explicitly.
>>
>> Who came up with the idea to add a macro 'from_tasklet' that is just
>> container_of? container_of in the code would be _much_ more readable,
>> and not leave anyone guessing wtf from_tasklet is doing.
>>
>> I'd fix that up now before everything else goes in...
> 
> As I mentioned in the other thread, I think this makes things much more
> readable. It's the same thing that the timer_struct conversion did
> (added a container_of wrapper) to avoid the ever-repeating use of
> typeof(), long lines, etc.

But then it should use a generic name, instead of each sub-system using
some random name that makes people look up exactly what it does. I'm not
huge fan of the container_of() redundancy, but adding private variants
of this doesn't seem like the best way forward. Let's have a generic
helper that does this, and use it everywhere.

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Jens Axboe