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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5]thp: improve the error code path
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:18:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111110021853.GQ5075@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320643049.22361.204.camel@sli10-conroe>

Hi Shaohua,

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 01:17:29PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 09:48 +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 19:44 +0800, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:58:41AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
> > > > +	sysfs_remove_group(hugepage_kobj, &khugepaged_attr_group);
> > > > +remove_hp_group:
> > > > +	sysfs_remove_group(hugepage_kobj, &hugepage_attr_group);
> > > > +delete_obj:
> > > > +	kobject_put(hugepage_kobj);
> > > >  out:
> > > > +#endif
> > > 
> > > Adding an ifdef is making the code worse, the whole point of having
> > > these functions become noops at build time is to avoid having to add
> > > ifdefs in the callers.
> > yes, but hugepage_attr_group is defined in CONFIG_SYSFS. And the
> > functions are inline functions. They really should be a '#define xxx'.

hugepage_attr_group is defined even if CONFIG_SYSFS is not set and I
just made a build with CONFIG_SYSFS=n and it builds just fine without
any change.

$ grep CONFIG_SYSFS .config
# CONFIG_SYSFS is not set

So we can drop 1/5 above.

> ping, any comments for the 5 patches?

Apologies for the delay in the answer! I had a few other open items
and the plenty of emails on 5/5 required a bit more time to think
about :). Expect a reply on the other 4 soon.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-10  2:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-25  2:58 [patch 1/5]thp: improve the error code path Shaohua Li
2011-10-25 11:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-26  1:48   ` Shaohua Li
2011-11-07  5:17     ` Shaohua Li
2011-11-10  2:18       ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2011-11-10  2:33         ` Shaohua Li
2011-11-10  2:43           ` David Rientjes
2011-11-10  3:06             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-10  4:43               ` David Rientjes
2011-11-10  5:56                 ` Shaohua Li
2011-11-10  6:08                   ` David Rientjes
2011-11-10  6:27                     ` Shaohua Li
2011-11-10 14:14                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-11  6:33                     ` Shaohua Li
2011-11-11  6:50                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-10  2:59           ` Andrea Arcangeli

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