On 10/05/2022 12:16, Petr Mladek wrote: > [...] > Hmm, this looks like a hack. PANIC_UNUSED will never be used. > All notifiers will be always called with PANIC_NOTIFIER. > > The @val parameter is normally used when the same notifier_list > is used in different situations. > > But you are going to use it when the same notifier is used > in more lists. This is normally distinguished by the @nh > (atomic_notifier_head) parameter. > > IMHO, it is a bad idea. First, it would confuse people because > it does not follow the original design of the parameters. > Second, the related code must be touched anyway when > the notifier is moved into another list so it does not > help much. > > Or do I miss anything, please? > > Best Regards, > Petr Hi Petr, thanks for the review. I'm not strong attached to this patch, so we could drop it and refactor the code of next patches to use the @nh as identification - but personally, I feel this parameter could be used to identify the list that called such function, in other words, what is the event that triggered the callback. Some notifiers are even declared with this parameter called "ev", like the event that triggers the notifier. You mentioned 2 cases: (a) Same notifier_list used in different situations; (b) Same *notifier callback* used in different lists; Mine is case (b), right? Can you show me an example of case (a)? You can see in the following patches (or grep the kernel) that people are using this identification parameter to determine which kind of OOPS trigger the callback to condition the execution of the function to specific cases. IIUIC, this is more or less what I'm doing, but extending the idea for panic notifiers. Again, as a personal preference, it makes sense to me using id's VS comparing pointers to differentiate events/callers. Cheers, Guilherme
