Re: [PATCH 1/6] oom: Make find_lock_task_mm() sparse-aware

From: Anton Vorontsov
Date: Mon Feb 06 2012 - 13:59:10 EST


On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:35:42AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
[...]
> > -extern struct task_struct *find_lock_task_mm(struct task_struct *p);
> > +extern struct task_struct *__find_lock_task_mm(struct task_struct *p);
> > +
> > +#define find_lock_task_mm(p) \
> > +({ \
> > + struct task_struct *__ret; \
> > + \
> > + __cond_lock(&(p)->alloc_lock, __ret = __find_lock_task_mm(p)); \
> > + __ret; \
> > +})
>
> Please use the proper "do...while" style thing here for multi-line,
> complex #defines like the rest of the kernel does so that you don't end
> up debugging horrible problems later.

Unfortunately this isn't possible in this case. Unlike '({})' GCC
extension, do-while statement does not evaluate to a value, i.e.
'x = do { 123; } while (0);' is illegal.

Thanks,

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Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@xxxxxxxxx
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