On 11/30/2012 09:35 AM, Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:14:41AM -0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 05:08:19PM +0530, Abhijit Pawar wrote: >>> Hi, >>> set_anon_super is called by many filesystems. Some call directly and >>> some call through the wrapper. Many of them in the wrapper's call to >>> this function are passing the second argument to this function which >>> is not used anywhere. >>> >>> This patch replaces the second variable with NULL. >>> >> >> If the variable isn't used anymore, why don't just get rid of it, instead of >> call the function passing a NULL pointer on it? > > Because we want it to be a valid sget() callback. I doubt that this > optimization is worth doing, though - might even micro-pessimize the things > on architectures where all arguments are passed in registers. > Al, Yes. it will be helpful in registers case. -- - Abhijit -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
