On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 02:37:51PM -0800, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
Agreed, it would likely be a nice cleanup. Peter, any objections? I wouldn't mind writing a commit to do this sort of refactor, and rebase my change on top of that.
No objection here. Personally I actually prefer keeping the parameters around if possible because it's straightforward and no thinking of any possible indirect accesses all over the place. But maybe growing as long as 8 is still a moot point.. It's just that I don't really know whether it'll look that good if we put everything into a struct*.
Things like src_start/dst_start/.. do not look good to be there: each layer could loop over its own range of start/end/... so even if not in the function parameter we'll need a variable to hold them anyway.
But I do see a few low hanging fruits:
- I don't see why we need to pass over mmap_changing over all of the __mcopy_atomic() callers. One chance is we simply pass in the ctx* to replace "dst_mm + mmap_changing".
- Merge mcopy_atomic_mode and mode, having last 2 bits for the existing three modes, then bit 3 for WP, good enough to set it for the new case.
- Optionally, we can avoid passing over dst_mm/src_mm all around, when dst_vma/src_vma is there?
How about we start from simple?