linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Add kvmalloc_ab_c and kvzalloc

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Date:   Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:23:03 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Add kvmalloc_ab_c and kvzalloc_struct

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:55:11AM -0600, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > > Uppercase like the similar KMEM_CACHE related macros in
> > > include/linux/slab.h?>
> >
> > Do you think that would look better in the users?  Compare:
> 
> Does looking matter? I thought we had the convention that macros are
> uppercase. There are some tricks going on with the struct. Uppercase shows
> that something special is going on.

  12) Macros, Enums and RTL
  -------------------------

  Names of macros defining constants and labels in enums are capitalized.

  .. code-block:: c

          #define CONSTANT 0x12345

  Enums are preferred when defining several related constants.

  CAPITALIZED macro names are appreciated but macros resembling functions
  may be named in lower case.

I dunno.  Yes, there's macro trickery going on here, but it certainly
resembles a function.  It doesn't fail any of the rules laid out in that
chapter of coding-style about unacceptable uses of macros.