Re: [PATCH 1/7] Introduce the pagetable_operations and associatedhelper macros.

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 11:07:34 EST


On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 09:50 -0500, Adam Litke wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 16:24 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:05 -0700, Adam Litke wrote:
> > >
> > > +#define has_pt_op(vma, op) \
> > > + ((vma)->pagetable_ops && (vma)->pagetable_ops->op)
> > > +#define pt_op(vma, call) \
> > > + ((vma)->pagetable_ops->call)
> >
> > Can you get rid of these macros? I think they make it a wee bit harder
> > to read. My brain doesn't properly parse the foo(arg)(bar) syntax.
> >
> > + if (has_pt_op(vma, copy_vma))
> > + return pt_op(vma, copy_vma)(dst_mm, src_mm, vma);
> >
> > + if (vma->pagetable_ops && vma->pagetable_ops->copy_vma)
> > + return vma->pagetable_ops->copy_vma(dst_mm, src_mm, vma);
> >
> > I guess it does lead to some longish lines. Does it start looking
> > really nasty?
>
> Yeah, it starts to look pretty bad. Some of these calls are in code
> that is already indented several times.

can we just make sure these things are never NULL in the first place?
would obsolete a lot of the checks, which are also runtime overhead as
well!
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