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> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html