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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	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 04:06:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111110030646.GT5075@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1111091828500.32414@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 06:43:58PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> You're right, but I agree that the #ifdef's just make the function error 
> handling much too complex.  Would you mind adding sysfs_*_out labels at 
> the end of the function to handle these errors instead?  And I think we 
> should be doing khugepaged_slab_init() and mm_slots_hash_init() before 
> initializing sysfs.
> 
> Something like
> 
> 	out:
> 		khugepaged_slab_free();
> 		mm_slots_hash_free();	<-- after you remove it from #if 0
> 		return err;
> 
> 	#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
> 	sysfs_khugepaged_out:
> 		sysfs_remove_group(hugepage_kobj, &khugepaged_attr_group);
> 	sysfs_hugepage_out:
> 		sysfs_remove_group(hugepage_kobj, &hugepage_attr_group);
> 		...
> 		goto out;
> 	#endif

Before after won't matter much I guess... If you really want to clean
the code, I wonder what is exactly the point of those dummy functions
if we can't call those outside of #ifdefs. I mean a cleanup that adds
more #ifdefs when there are explicit dummy functions which I assume
are meant to be used outside of #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS doesn't sound so
clean in the first place. I understand you need to refactor the code
above to call those outside of #ifdefs but hey if you're happy with
#ifdef I'm happy too :). It just looks fishy to read sysfs.h dummy
functions and #ifdefs. When I wrote the code I hardly could have
wondered about the sysfs #ifdefs but at this point it's only cleanups
I'm seeing so I actually noticed that.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-10  3:06 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
2011-11-10  2:33         ` Shaohua Li
2011-11-10  2:43           ` David Rientjes
2011-11-10  3:06             ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
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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