Re: [PATCH 1/4] coda: Remove unnecessary OOM messages

From: Ryan Mallon
Date: Tue Jan 31 2012 - 19:23:15 EST


On 01/02/12 11:21, Joe Perches wrote:

>> Since CODA_ALLOC no longer uses __FILE__ and __LINE__ and doesn't use
>> the cast argument any more, it can be replaced with a static inline
>> function. Something like this (untested, applies on top of your patch):
>
> Hi Ryan.
>
> I didn't want to be quite so invasive
> but this looks like a nice cleanup to me.

Yeah, it needed to be done as a separate patch. Just a good time to do
it now that it no longer needs to be a macro.

> Maybe because alloc/free functions are
> used relatively infrequently, maybe it'd
> be better to not declare the functions
> inline but add them to coda_linux.c


Sure, either approach is fine. Do you want to add the patch to your series?

~Ryan

>
>> +static inline void *coda_alloc(size_t size)
>> +{
>> + if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
>> + return kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + return vzalloc(size);
>> +}
> []
>> +static inline void coda_free(const void *ptr, size_t size)
>> +{
>> + if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
>> + kfree(ptr);
>> + else
>> + vfree(ptr);
>> +}
>
>


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