On 2/2/23 6:19 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 3:25 PM Mike Christie > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> + if (args->worker_flags & USER_WORKER_SIG_IGN) >> + ignore_signals(p); > > Same comment as for the other case. > > There are real reasons to avoid bitfields: > > - you can't pass addresses to them around > > - it's easier to read or assign multiple fields in one go > > - they are horrible for ABI issues due to the exact bit ordering and > padding being very subtle > > but none of those issues are relevant here, where it's a kernel-internal ABI. > > All these use-cases seem to actually be testing one bit at a time, and > the "assignments" are structure initializers for which named bitfields > are actually perfect and just make the initializer more legible. >
Thanks for the comments. I see what you mean and have fixed those instances and updated kthread as well. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
