Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/8]: CGroup Files: Add locking mode to cgroups control files

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

Andrew wrote:
> As Matt observed, this is just a poorly-named variable.

How about the following code for cgroup_file_write():


	char buf[64];		/* avoid kmalloc() in small cases */
	char *p;		/* buf[] or kmalloc'd buffer */

	...

	if (nbytes < sizeof(buf)) {
		p = buf;
	} else {
		p = kmalloc(nbytes + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
		if (p == NULL)
			return -ENOMEM;
	}


Possible advantages of above code:

  * Uses short names for local variables of limited scope.

  * Doesn't set p until needed, so as:
	1) to highlight the symmetry of its setting, to either buf[]
	   (small cases) or to a kmalloc'd buffer (large cases), and
	2) to avoid implying that p needs to be set in the intervening
	   "..." code above.

  * Comments variable declarations.

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