linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 1/6] slab: introduce __kfree

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Message-ID: <49C7DC04.9060006@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:59:16 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 1/6] slab: introduce __kfree_rcu

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> Well, like I said, it was a minor nitpick, that's all. I would prefer
>> it the way I and Ingo suggested but if you don't want to change it,
>> that's fine as well.

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Maybe put some macros in to make these "pickup the context" thingies more
> readable. Or would a macro obfuscate things?
> 
> #define GET_SLAB_CONTEXT(pointer, slab, cache, page)
> 
> 	and
> 
> #define GET_OBJECT_CONTEXT(pointer, slab, index, offset) ?

It would obfuscate things :-)
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