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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/bootmem.c: remove unused 'limit' variable
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:05:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528E83B6.5040107@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131121164335.066fd6aa@redhat.com>

On 11/21/2013 01:43 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> @@ -655,9 +655,7 @@ restart:
>  void * __init __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
>  					unsigned long goal)
>  {
> -	unsigned long limit = 0;
> -
> -	return ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size, align, goal, limit);
> +	return ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size, align, goal, 0);
>  }

FWIW, I like those.  The way you leave it:

	return ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size, align, goal, 0);

the 0 is a magic number that you have to go look up the declaration of
___alloc_bootmem_nopanic() to decipher, or you have to add a comment to
it in some way.

I find it much more readable to have an 'unused' variable like that.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-21 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-21 21:43 [PATCH] mm/bootmem.c: remove unused 'limit' variable Luiz Capitulino
2013-11-21 22:05 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2013-11-22  1:37   ` Luiz Capitulino

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