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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 -mm] fault-injection: safer defaults, trivial optimization, cleanup
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:37:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061128133754.bad99ddb.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164699866.2894.88.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:44:26 -0800
Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> wrote:

> Set /debug/fail*/* defaults supposed most likely to please a new user.
> Clamp /debug/fail*/stacktrace-depth to MAX_STACK_TRACE_DEPTH.
> 
> In should_fail(), move stack-unwinding test past cheaper tests (performance
> gain not quantified).  Simplify logic; eliminate goto.
> Use bool/true/false consistently.
> 
> Correct and disambiguate documentation.

We'd prefer one-patch-per-concept, please. This all sounds like about
six patches.

We _could_ merge this patch as-is, but it means that when this stuff
finally hits mainline it would go in as a nice sequence of logical patches,
followed by a random thing which is splattered all over all the preceding
patches.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-28 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-28  7:44 [PATCH 1/2 -mm] fault-injection: safer defaults, trivial optimization, cleanup Don Mullis
2006-11-28  7:51 ` [PATCH 2/2 -mm] fault-injection: lightweight code-coverage maximizer Don Mullis
2006-11-28  9:18   ` Akinobu Mita
2006-11-28 20:14     ` Don Mullis
2006-11-29  2:37       ` Akinobu Mita
2006-11-29 19:47         ` Don Mullis
2006-11-28 21:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-11-28 22:50   ` [PATCH 1/2 -mm] fault-injection: safer defaults, trivial optimization, cleanup Don Mullis
2006-11-29  0:05     ` Andrew Morton

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