linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 13/19] locking/lockdep: Remove unnecessary function pointer argument

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Date:   Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:48:56 -0700
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Yuyang Du <duyuyang@...il.com>, peterz@...radead.org,
        will.deacon@....com, mingo@...nel.org
Cc:     ming.lei@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/19] locking/lockdep: Remove unnecessary function
 pointer argument

On Mon, 2019-03-18 at 16:57 +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> check_prev_add() always has save_trace() as an input argument, which is
> unnecessary.

I think this kind of transformation is called constant propagation. You may
want to mention that name. Anyway:

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>