Re: [PATCH 01/10] dm snapshot: Use kmalloc_array() in init_origin_hash()

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On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 22:39 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 13:24 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 21:43 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > > Why doesn't that regex match on "ORIGIN_HASH_SIZE"?
> > It does match.
> If that regex does match, it being part of a negative test, the
> specific checkpatch rule should be silent, shouldn't it?

'cause I forgot to trim() the original $4 and $10 matches.

Oh well.

It doesn't matter match either way to me.

The case for the unnecessary multiply with <= gcc 4.8 was
removed with:

commit 91c6a05f72a996bee5133e76374ab3ad7d3b9b72
Author: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Jul 26 15:22:08 2016 -0700

    mm: faster kmalloc_array(), kcalloc()
    
    When both arguments to kmalloc_array() or kcalloc() are known at compile
    time then their product is known at compile time but search for kmalloc
    cache happens at runtime not at compile time.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160627213454.GA2440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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