linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bpf: force inc_active()/dec

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Message-Id: <49e860d2-941c-4e66-90af-d9fb7ddcd401@app.fastmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:27:31 +0200
From:   "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To:     "Alexei Starovoitov" <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...nel.org>,
        "Yafang Shao" <laoar.shao@...il.com>,
        "Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@...nel.org>,
        "Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii@...nel.org>,
        "Hou Tao" <houtao1@...wei.com>,
        "Martin KaFai Lau" <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,
        "Song Liu" <song@...nel.org>, "Yonghong Song" <yhs@...com>,
        "John Fastabend" <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        "KP Singh" <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        "Stanislav Fomichev" <sdf@...gle.com>,
        "Hao Luo" <haoluo@...gle.com>, "Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        "Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi" <memxor@...il.com>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: force inc_active()/dec_active() to be inline functions

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023, at 20:15, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 1:41 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>>
>> Sure, that's fine. Between this and the two suggestions I had
>> (__always_inline or passing the flags from  inc_active as a
>> return code), I don't have a strong preference, so pick whichever
>> you like.
>
> I think:
> static void dec_active(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, unsigned long *flags)
> is cleaner.
> Could you send a patch?

Ok, done,

     Arnd