From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Ud4rP-00056q-6l for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 16 May 2013 20:33:12 +0000 Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 16:32:36 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 6/8] vmcore: allocate ELF note segment in the 2nd kernel vmalloc memory Message-ID: <20130516203236.GG5904@redhat.com> References: <20130515090507.28109.28956.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <20130515090614.28109.26492.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130515090614.28109.26492.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=twosheds.infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: HATAYAMA Daisuke Cc: riel@redhat.com, hughd@google.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lisa.mitchell@hp.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp, ebiederm@xmission.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, walken@google.com, cpw@sgi.com, jingbai.ma@hp.com On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 06:06:14PM +0900, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote: [..] > +static int __init get_note_number_and_size_elf32(const Elf32_Ehdr *ehdr_ptr, > + int *nr_ptnote, u64 *phdr_sz) > +{ > + return process_note_headers_elf32(ehdr_ptr, nr_ptnote, phdr_sz, NULL); > +} > + > +static int __init copy_notes_elf32(const Elf32_Ehdr *ehdr_ptr, char *notes_buf) > +{ > + return process_note_headers_elf32(ehdr_ptr, NULL, NULL, notes_buf); > +} > + Please don't do this. We need to create two separate functions doing two different operations and not just create wrapper around a function which does two things. I know both functions will have similar for loops for going through the elf notes but it is better then doing function overloading based on parameters passed. Vivek _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec