linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/vmalloc: use generated callback to populate subtree_max

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Date:   Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:39:23 -0700
From:   Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
To:     "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@...ymobile.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/vmalloc: use generated callback to populate subtree_max_size

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 11:46 AM Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
<urezki@...il.com> wrote:
> RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS_MAX defines its own callback to update the
> augmented subtree information after a node is modified. It makes
> sense to use it instead of our own propagate implementation.
>
> Apart of that, in case of using generated callback we can eliminate
> compute_subtree_max_size() function and get rid of duplication.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>

Love it. Thanks a lot for the cleanup!