linux-kernel - Re: [3/6] kgdb: core

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Date:	Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:43:27 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@....com.au>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [3/6] kgdb: core


* Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com> wrote:

> > +		if (CACHE_FLUSH_IS_SAFE) {
> > +			if (current->mm && addr < TASK_SIZE) {
> > +				flush_cache_range(current->mm->mmap_cache,
> > +						addr, addr + BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
> > +			} else {
> > +				flush_icache_range(addr, addr +
> > +						BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
> > +			}
> > +		}
> unneeded braces (here and in many other places)

this is a small detail, but you are wrong. These braces around 
multi-line statements are unneded _for the compiler_, but are very much 
wanted by humans. You'll see akpm, me and others reject/fix patches on a 
routine basis that make this cleanliness mistake. Please watch out for 
this when writing patches ;-)

> if ()
> else if ()
> else
> 
> will look better

nope. I consciously avoid that construct because it's dangerous: it can 
quite easily result in the wrong logic. Having _more_ braces than needed 
by the compiler is a style error in only a single, special case.

> > +	if (*(ptr++) != ',') {
> > +		error_packet(remcom_out_buffer, -EINVAL);
> > +		return;
> > +	} else {
> no else needed

agreed - fixed.

> if (!kgdb_hex2long()) {
> 	error_packet();
> 	return;
> }

fixed.

	Ingo
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