Re: [PATCH 1/4] coda: Remove unnecessary OOM messages

[Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>]

On 01/02/12 11:21, Joe Perches wrote:

>> Since CODA_ALLOC no longer uses __FILE__ and __LINE__ and doesn't use
>> the cast argument any more, it can be replaced with a static inline
>> function. Something like this (untested, applies on top of your patch):
> 
> Hi Ryan.
> 
> I didn't want to be quite so invasive
> but this looks like a nice cleanup to me.

Yeah, it needed to be done as a separate patch. Just a good time to do
it now that it no longer needs to be a macro.

> Maybe because alloc/free functions are
> used relatively infrequently, maybe it'd
> be better to not declare the functions
> inline but add them to coda_linux.c


Sure, either approach is fine. Do you want to add the patch to your series?

~Ryan

> 
>> +static inline void *coda_alloc(size_t size)
>> +{
>> +	if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
>> +		return kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	return vzalloc(size);
>> +}
> []
>> +static inline void coda_free(const void *ptr, size_t size)
>> +{
>> +	if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
>> +		kfree(ptr);
>> +	else
>> +		vfree(ptr);
>> +}
> 
>