linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dyn_array: using %pF instead of print_fn_descriptor

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Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:23:04 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dyn_array: using %pF instead of
 print_fn_descriptor_symbol

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:34:26 -0700
"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >>       ptr = __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(total_size, max_align, 0);
> >>       if (!ptr)
> >>               panic("Can not alloc dyn_alloc\n");
> 
> like to give exact error message.

It's pointless.  panic() will do a dump_stack().

> >
> > Why duplicate the panic()?  Just call __alloc_bootmem().
> >
> >> #ifdef CONFIF_GENERIC_HARDIRQS
> >
> > That doesn't appear to have been very well tested?
> 
> ah!
> it should break sparc, m68k, and s390...
> 
> >
> > The code has a few coding-style glitches which checkpatch can detect.
> >
> 
> should only have 80 char length warning...
> 

sure.  The code looks rather miserable in an 80-col display.

there's also

WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for single statement blocks
#119: FILE: dyn_array.c:119:
+               if (da->init_work) {
+                       da->init_work(da);
+               }



and checkpatch should have detected the misplaced semicolon here:

+       for (daa = __per_cpu_dyn_array_start ; daa < __per_cpu_dyn_array_end; daa++) {

but didn't.

		
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