Re: [patch 1/3] Relay Reset Consumed

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:51:50 -0800
"David J. Wilder" <dwilder@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> This patch allows relay channels to be reset i.e. unconsumed.
> Basically allows a 'rewind' function for flight-recorder tracing.
> 
> +void relay_reset_consumed(struct rchan *chan)
> +{
> +	unsigned int i;
> +	struct rchan_buf *prev = NULL;
> +
> +	if (!chan)
> +		return;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {

Use of NR_CPUS is usually wrong.  In this case it seems you should be using
for_each_possible_cpu().

Also the existing usage of NR_CPUS in relay_subbufs_consumed() should be
switched to using cpu_possible().


New usage of NR_CPUS might be checkpatch-worthy, actually:

akpm:/usr/src/25> grep -l '^+.*NR_CPUS' patches/*.patch 
patches/ext4-mm-mballoc-core.patch
patches/git-kvm.patch
patches/git-perfmon.patch
patches/relay-reset-consumed.patch
patches/x86-andi-git-x86.patch
patches/x86-andi-smp-switch-optimize.patch

that's a sample of 1852 patches.

An appropriate warning would be "Usage of NR_CPUS is often wrong - should
you be using cpu_possible(), num_possible_cpus(), for_each_possible_cpu(),
etc?".