Re: [PATCH] Breaks the redundant loop in kernel/marker.c

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  kernel/marker.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/marker.c b/kernel/marker.c
> index 7d1faec..2c3172d 100644
> --- a/kernel/marker.c
> +++ b/kernel/marker.c
> @@ -836,8 +836,6 @@ void *marker_get_private_data(const char *name, marker_probe_func *probe,
>  			if (!e->ptype) {
>  				if (num == 0 && e->single.func == probe)
>  					return e->single.probe_private;
> -				else
> -					break;
>  			} else {
>  				struct marker_probe_closure *closure;
>  				int match = 0;
> @@ -849,6 +847,7 @@ void *marker_get_private_data(const char *name, marker_probe_func *probe,
>  						return closure[i].probe_private;
>  				}
>  			}
> +			break;
>  		}
>  	}
>  	return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);

hm, could you describe the necessity of this patch some more? This has 
the change to change behavior, which might even be a bugfix: is there 
any chance that the closure-loop in the e->ptype != NULL branch does not 
exit? Before your patch we'd continue the iteration - which _probably_ 
does not lead to any more matches (e->name is supposed to be unique).

	Ingo