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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>
Cc: bunk@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/cgroup.c: remove dead code
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:34:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071024103411.dfd3ae04.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6599ad830710240930r6649dec0q21b8c00f7d8a796a@mail.gmail.com>

Paul M wrote:
> I think I'd rather not make this change - if we later changed the size
> of release_agent_path[] this could silently fail. Can we get around
> the coverity checker somehow?

Perhaps we can simplify this check then, to:

  BUG_ON(sizeof(cgrp->root->release_agent_path) < PATH_MAX));

Less runtime code.

This patch of Adrian highlighted a couple more opportunities
for code tweaking ... see my RFC patches, coming next from me.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-24 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-24 16:25 [2.6 patch] kernel/cgroup.c: remove dead code Adrian Bunk
2007-10-24 16:30 ` Paul Menage
2007-10-24 17:07   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-24 17:13     ` Paul Menage
2007-10-24 17:34   ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2007-10-26  1:10     ` Paul Menage
2007-10-26  1:19       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-26  1:24       ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-26  1:26         ` Paul Menage
2007-10-26  1:37           ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-26  1:30         ` Adrian Bunk

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