From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dyn_array: using %pF instead of print_fn_descriptor_symbol
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:18:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080906171803.GJ4856@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440809061016n2fa6d8te0dd486ceeb6135d@mail.gmail.com>
* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> > * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> >> > ptr = __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(total_size, max_align, 0);
> >> > if (!ptr)
> >> > panic("Can not alloc dyn_alloc\n");
> >>
> >> Why duplicate the panic()? Just call __alloc_bootmem().
> >
> > agreed.
> >
> >> > #ifdef CONFIF_GENERIC_HARDIRQS
> >>
> >> That doesn't appear to have been very well tested?
> >
> > on non-genirq systems? Most likely. If then most testing they get is
> > from cross-build tools. Few if any actual users.
> >
> >> The code has a few coding-style glitches which checkpatch can detect.
> >
> > yeah. Yinghai, could you please fix them?
>
> already in tip/master and -mm
> except first one.
that needs fixing too i think. We dont really want to sprinkle the code
with various specific panics.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-06 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-29 22:07 Yinghai Lu
2008-08-29 22:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-29 22:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-29 22:45 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-29 22:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-29 23:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-30 0:23 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-06 17:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-06 17:16 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-06 17:18 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-09-06 17:27 ` Yinghai Lu
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