On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:49:57PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>
> > @@ -921,7 +784,7 @@ static int transfer_objects(struct array_cache *to,
> > static inline struct alien_cache **alloc_alien_cache(int node,
> > int limit, gfp_t gfp)
> > {
> > - return (struct alien_cache **)BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC;
> > + return NULL;
> > }
> >
>
> Why change the BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC?
Hello, Christoph.
BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC is only checked by slab_set_lock_classes(). We remove this
function in this patch, so returning BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC is useless.
And, in fact, BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC is already useless, because alloc_alien_cache()
can't be called on !CONFIG_NUMA. This function is called if use_alien_caches
is positive, but on !CONFIG_NUMA, use_alien_caches is always 0. So we don't
have any chance to meet this BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC in runtime.
Thanks.
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