Re: [PATCH 2/9] slab: makes clear_obj_pfmemalloc() just return store masked value

From: David Rientjes
Date: Fri Feb 14 2014 - 18:18:13 EST


On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> > @@ -215,9 +215,9 @@ static inline void set_obj_pfmemalloc(void **objp)
> > return;
> > }
> >
> > -static inline void clear_obj_pfmemalloc(void **objp)
> > +static inline void *clear_obj_pfmemalloc(void *objp)
> > {
> > - *objp = (void *)((unsigned long)*objp & ~SLAB_OBJ_PFMEMALLOC);
> > + return (void *)((unsigned long)objp & ~SLAB_OBJ_PFMEMALLOC);
> > }
>
> I dont think you need the (void *) cast here.
>

Yeah, you don't need it, but don't you think it makes the code more
readable? Otherwise this is going to be just doing

return (unsigned long)objp & ~SLAB_OBJ_PFMEMALLOC;

and you gotta figure out the function type to understand it's returned as
a pointer.
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