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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:15:55 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] treewide: Replace DECLARE_TASKLET() with
 DECLARE_TASKLET_OLD()

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 12:29:14PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 08:08:46PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > This converts all the existing DECLARE_TASKLET() (and ...DISABLED)
> > macros with DECLARE_TASKLET_OLD() in preparation for refactoring the
> > tasklet callback type. All existing DECLARE_TASKLET() users had a "0"
> > data argument, it has been removed here as well.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> [...]
> >  16 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 
> This is about 5% of what needs to change.  There are 350 callers of
> tasklet_init(), and that still takes a 'data' argument.

Yup, please see the referenced tree. This "series" is just the
ground-work for allowing the rest of the 350 patches to land with calls
to the new tasklet_setup() API, and associated prototype and
container_of() changes.

-- 
Kees Cook

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