On 03/04/2015 09:14 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Current context tracking symbols are designed to express living state. > As such they are prefixed with "IN_": IN_USER, IN_KERNEL. > > Now we are going to use these symbols to also express state transitions > such as context_tracking_enter(IN_USER) or context_tracking_exit(IN_USER). > But while the "IN_" prefix works well to express entering a context, it's > confusing to depict a context exit: context_tracking_exit(IN_USER) > could mean two things: > 1) We are exiting the current context to enter user context. > 2) We are exiting the user context > We want 2) but the reviewer may be confused and understand 1) > > So lets disambiguate these symbols and rename them to CONTEXT_USER and > CONTEXT_KERNEL. > > Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> > Cc: Will deacon <[email protected]> > Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]> > Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]> > Cc: Luiz Capitulino <[email protected]> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
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