linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Use fallthrough;

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Date:   Mon, 9 Mar 2020 15:20:46 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Use fallthrough;

On (20/03/08 21:51), Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-03-09 at 13:15 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (20/03/07 19:54), Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2020-03-08 at 12:18 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > > On (20/03/06 23:58), Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > [..]

[..]

> > > Consecutive case labels do not need an interleaving fallthrough;
> > > 
> > > ie: ditto
> > 
> > I see. Shall this be mentioned in the commit message, maybe?
> 
> <shrug, maybe>  I've no real opinion about that necessity.
> 
> fallthrough commments are relatively rarely used as a
> separating element between case labels.
> 
> It's by far most common to just have consecutive case labels
> without any other content.
> 
> It's somewhere between 500:1 to 1000:1 in the kernel.

I thought that those labels were used by some static code analysis
tools, so that the removal of some labels raised questions. But I
don't think I have opinions otherwise.

	-ss