Re: [PATCH v2] sched: fix build error in kernel/sched_rt.c whenRT_GROUP_SCHED && !SMP

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 05:55:03 EST


On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 09:01 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > +#define dec_rt_group(rt_se, rt_rq) do { } while (0)
>
> Please dont _ever_ introduce new CPP macros into core kernel code, and if
> you see existing once, please fix them to be proper C inline functions.
> (there's a few other new macros in your patchset)

Generally good advice, and certainly doable in this case. But in some
very rare occasions I've had to use CPP in order to avoid silly header
dependency hell -- I think we should add comments in such cases as to
why we use CPP.
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