The patch titled
Subject: mm/slab: avoid returning values by reference
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-slab-avoid-returning-values-by-reference.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/slab: avoid returning values by reference
Returing values by reference is bad practice. Instead, just use function
return value.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slab.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/slab.c~mm-slab-avoid-returning-values-by-reference mm/slab.c
--- a/mm/slab.c~mm-slab-avoid-returning-values-by-reference
+++ a/mm/slab.c
@@ -460,9 +460,10 @@ static inline struct array_cache *cpu_ca
/*
* Calculate the number of objects and left-over bytes for a given buffer size.
*/
-static void cache_estimate(unsigned long gfporder, size_t buffer_size,
- unsigned long flags, size_t *left_over, unsigned int *num)
+static unsigned int cache_estimate(unsigned long gfporder, size_t buffer_size,
+ unsigned long flags, size_t *left_over)
{
+ unsigned int num;
size_t slab_size = PAGE_SIZE << gfporder;
/*
@@ -483,13 +484,15 @@ static void cache_estimate(unsigned long
* correct alignment when allocated.
*/
if (flags & (CFLGS_OBJFREELIST_SLAB | CFLGS_OFF_SLAB)) {
- *num = slab_size / buffer_size;
+ num = slab_size / buffer_size;
*left_over = slab_size % buffer_size;
} else {
- *num = slab_size / (buffer_size + sizeof(freelist_idx_t));
+ num = slab_size / (buffer_size + sizeof(freelist_idx_t));
*left_over = slab_size %
(buffer_size + sizeof(freelist_idx_t));
}
+
+ return num;
}
#if DEBUG
@@ -1893,7 +1896,7 @@ static size_t calculate_slab_order(struc
unsigned int num;
size_t remainder;
- cache_estimate(gfporder, size, flags, &remainder, &num);
+ num = cache_estimate(gfporder, size, flags, &remainder);
if (!num)
continue;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx are
mm-vmalloc-query-dynamic-debug_pagealloc-setting.patch
mm-slub-query-dynamic-debug_pagealloc-setting.patch
mm-slub-query-dynamic-debug_pagealloc-setting-v2.patch
sound-query-dynamic-debug_pagealloc-setting.patch
powerpc-query-dynamic-debug_pagealloc-setting.patch
tile-query-dynamic-debug_pagealloc-setting.patch
mm-introduce-page-reference-manipulation-functions.patch
mm-page_ref-add-tracepoint-to-track-down-page-reference-manipulation.patch
mm-page_ref-add-tracepoint-to-track-down-page-reference-manipulation-fix-3.patch
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