On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Drokin, Oleg wrote:
> Hello!
>
>First, thanks for your patches and efforts spent on these cleanups.
>
> On Sep 19, 2014, at 12:45 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
> > With respect to the upper case lower case issue, does the thing need to be
> > a macro? I think that the lower
Hello!
First, thanks for your patches and efforts spent on these cleanups.
On Sep 19, 2014, at 12:45 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> With respect to the upper case lower case issue, does the thing need to be
> a macro? I think that the lowercase is more or less fine, but only if
> what is behind i
On Sep 19, 2014, at 5:11 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 02:57:03AM +, Drokin, Oleg wrote:
>> 4. Sometimes we need large allocations. general kmalloc is less
>> reliable as system lives on and memory fragmentation worsens. So we
>> have this "allocations over 2-4 pages get
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 02:57:03AM +, Drokin, Oleg wrote:
> 4. Sometimes we need large allocations. general kmalloc is less
> reliable as system lives on and memory fragmentation worsens. So we
> have this "allocations over 2-4 pages get switched to vmalloc" logic,
> if there's a way to do that
With respect to the upper case lower case issue, does the thing need to be
a macro? I think that the lowercase is more or less fine, but only if
what is behind it is a function.
I say more or less fine, because normally in the kernel the special
allocators have special purposes, eg allocating and
On Sep 18, 2014, at 10:57 PM, Drokin, Oleg wrote:
> would not be easy to do. Perhaps registered callbacks for pools that could be
> called on alloc and on free - though such pools would also need to allow to
> allocate different sized chunks too).
Come think of it - we don't even need callback
Hello!
On Sep 18, 2014, at 7:43 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:24:02PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
>> From: Julia Lawall
>>
>> This patch removes some kzalloc-related macros and rewrites the
>> associated null tests to use !x rather than x == NULL.
> This is sort of exactl
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:24:02PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall
>
> This patch removes some kzalloc-related macros and rewrites the
> associated null tests to use !x rather than x == NULL.
>
This is sort of exactly what Oleg asked us not to do in his previous
email. ;P
I th
From: Julia Lawall
This patch removes some kzalloc-related macros and rewrites the
associated null tests to use !x rather than x == NULL.
A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
//
@@
expression ptr;
statement S,S1;
@@
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