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From: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 09:43:18 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1] bpf,arena: Rename the kfunc set variable
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 7:36=E2=80=AFAM Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 7:46=E2=80=AFPM Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@intel.com=
> wrote:
> >
> > Rename the kfunc set variable to specify the 'arena' function scope,
> > although the 'UNSPEC' type BPF program is mapped to 'COMMON' hook.
> >
> > And there is 'common_kfunc_set' defined for real 'common' function in
> > file 'kernel/bpf/helpers.c'.
>
> I think common_kfunc_set is a better name to describe that these
> two kfuncs are in a common category.
> BPF_PROG_TYPE_UNSPEC is a lot less obvious.
>
> There are two static common_kfunc_set in helpers.c and arena.c
> and that's fine.

it is actually confusing when reading/grepping code, though, so why
not have arena_common_kfunc_set and whatever the meaningful
"qualifier" name for the other one?

>
> pw-bot: cr