Thread (32 messages) 32 messages, 4 authors, 2011-04-05

Re: [PATCH 05/12] mm: alloc_contig_range() added

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2011-03-31 19:28:27
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 06:26:45PM +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
quoted
In any case, please pull the ++ret bit out of the WARN_ON().  Some
people like to do:

#define WARN_ON(...) do{}while(0)

to save space on some systems.
I don't think that's the case.  Even if WARN_ON() decides not to print
a warning, it will still return the value of the argument.  If not,
a lot of code will brake.
WARN_ON() should never do anything but test. That ret++ does not belong
inside the WARN_ON() condition. If there are other locations in the
kernel that do that, then those locations need to be fixed.

-- Steve

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