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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	tony.luck@intel.com, avolkov@varma-el.com,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:18:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <444F5706.4030805@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060426110856.GB19935@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com>

Robin Holt wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:12:48AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>> -	if (status)
>>> -		printk(KERN_WARNING "smp_call_function failed for "
>>> -		       "uncached_ipi_mc_drain! (%i)\n", status);
>>> +	(void) smp_call_function(uncached_ipi_mc_drain, NULL, 0, 1);
>> This thing could in theory fail so having the error check there seems
>> the right thing to me. In either case, please don't (void) the function
>> return (this is a style issue, I know).
> 
> I must be blind.  Both up and smp cases for smp_call_function appear to
> always return 0.  What am I missing?

Not on all architectures, at least PPC can return != 0 - dunno if this
is a realistic case though. If not, maybe the prototype for
smp_call_function() ought to be changed.

Cheers,
Jes

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-26 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-24 18:35 [PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory Dean Nelson
2006-04-25  1:16 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-25 15:50   ` Dean Nelson
2006-04-26  9:12     ` Jes Sorensen
2006-04-26 11:08       ` Robin Holt
2006-04-26 11:18         ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2006-04-26 13:28       ` Dean Nelson
2006-04-26 13:42         ` Jes Sorensen
2006-04-26 16:31           ` Dean Nelson
2006-04-28 12:49             ` Jes Sorensen
2006-04-26 10:27     ` Jesper Juhl

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