[RFC PATCH 6/7] static_call: rename EXPORT_ macros to be more self-explanatory

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Tue Nov 9 11:03:52 PST 2021


On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 20:00, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 05:45:48PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > So let's rename these macros to
> >
> >   EXPORT_STATIC_CALL        -> EXPORT_STATIC_CALL_FOR_UPDATE
> >   EXPORT_STATIC_CALL_TRAMP  -> EXPORT_STATIC_CALL
> >
>
> Ok, let's pain this shed a bit.
>
> How about:
>
>         EXPORT_STATIC_CALL_RW
>         EXPORT_STATIC_CALL_RO
>

Works for me

> respectively. OR.. alternatively, have both:
>
>         EXPORT_STATIC_CALL_KEY
>         EXPORT_STATIC_CALL_TRAMP
>
> and those that want to export both get to use both.

Yeah but whether a trampoline even exists is an implementation detail,
which I would like to omit from the API.



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