From: andreabenelli77@gmail.com (Andrea Benelli)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: What is the point of this function?
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:48:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPQXMLFvDqbRKfpyqy+yfG8HUyFra3JuX3bmMqhgtV-OTw_Umg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPQXMLHzXhKzZyZx_0YWZMkr6MdPNDdd38Fh=vabGcRMcKXXjw@mail.gmail.com>
Hello, i was looking at the *linux/sched.h* (kernel version 4.6.2) source
code and i found this function at line *1174*:
static inline bool cpus_share_cache(int this_cpu, int that_cpu)
{
return true;
}
I'm not able to understand the utility of a function that just return a
true value.
i've noticed that there are a lot of functions like this (function that
just return a constant).
so...why?
thanks.
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2016-06-20 22:48 ` Andrea Benelli [this message]
2016-06-21 2:31 ` What is the point of this function? Nathan Williams
2016-06-21 11:56 ` Andrea Benelli
2016-06-22 13:08 ` Daniel.
2016-06-23 7:58 ` Andrea Benelli
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