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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: radix tree safety
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:41:54 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <441A05D2.7070803@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060316171320.1572.qmail@lwn.net>

Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>How about making the code self-documenting and more useful at the same
>>time: put RADIX_TREE_TAGS in radix-tree.h, and call it RADIX_TREE_MAX_TAGS
> 
> 
> I like that idea - how's the following?  I also took the liberty of
> making the tag arguments be unsigned, since that is clearly the way they
> are intended to be used.
>

Looks really good. Andrew will you pick it up?

> jon
> 
> 
> Documentation changes to help radix tree users avoid overrunning the
> tags array.  RADIX_TREE_TAGS moves to linux/radix-tree.h and is now
> known as RADIX_TREE_MAX_TAGS (Nick Piggin's idea).  Tag parameters are
> changed to unsigned, and some comments are updated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-17  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-13 22:43 RFC: radix tree safety Jonathan Corbet
2006-03-13 22:55 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-13 23:50   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-14  0:01     ` Jonathan Corbet
2006-03-14  0:14       ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-14  5:24         ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-16 17:13           ` Jonathan Corbet
2006-03-17  0:41             ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-03-13 23:03 ` Randy.Dunlap

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