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Message-ID: <1475182586.1954.3.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:56:26 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Cc:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        dm-devel@...hat.com, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
        Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
        Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] dm snapshot: Use kmalloc_array() in
 init_origin_hash()

On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 22:39 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 13:24 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 21:43 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > > Why doesn't that regex match on "ORIGIN_HASH_SIZE"?
> > It does match.
> If that regex does match, it being part of a negative test, the
> specific checkpatch rule should be silent, shouldn't it?

'cause I forgot to trim() the original $4 and $10 matches.

Oh well.

It doesn't matter match either way to me.

The case for the unnecessary multiply with <= gcc 4.8 was
removed with:

commit 91c6a05f72a996bee5133e76374ab3ad7d3b9b72
Author: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Date:   Tue Jul 26 15:22:08 2016 -0700

    mm: faster kmalloc_array(), kcalloc()
    
    When both arguments to kmalloc_array() or kcalloc() are known at compile
    time then their product is known at compile time but search for kmalloc
    cache happens at runtime not at compile time.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160627213454.GA2440@p183.telecom.by
    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
    Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
    Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
    Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
    Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>

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