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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mm, mempolicy: make mpol_to_str robust and always succeed
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:30:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130925143009.913fb1c042abe10d91c86c8b@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1309251057080.17676@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:58:27 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> >  > 	/* fall through */
> >  > 
> >  > for all of them would be pretty annoying.
> >  
> > agreed, but with that example, it seems pretty obvious (to me at least)
> > that the lack of break's is intentional.  Where it gets trickier to
> > make quick judgment calls is cases like the one I mentioned above,
> > where there are only a few cases, and there's real code involved in
> > some but not all cases.
> > 
> 
> I fully agree and have code in the oom killer that has the "fall through" 
> comment if there's code in between the case statements, but I think things 
> like
> 
> 	case MPOL_BIND:
> 	case MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
> 		...
> 
> is quite easy to read.  I don't feel strongly at all, though, so I'll just 
> leave it to Andrew's preference.

I've never even thought about it, but that won't prevent me from
pretending otherwise!  How about:

This:

	case WIBBLE:
		something();
		something_else();
	case WOBBLE:

needs a /* fall through */ comment (because it *looks* like a mistake),
whereas

	case WIBBLE:
	case WOBBLE:

does not?

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-25 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-20  3:56 [PATCH 0/3] mm: mempolicy: the failure processing about mpol_to_str() Chen Gang
2013-08-20  3:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/mempolicy.c: still fill buffer as full as possible when buffer space is not enough in mpol_to_str() Chen Gang
2013-08-20  3:58   ` [PATCH 2/3] fs/proc/task_mmu.c: check the return value of mpol_to_str() Chen Gang
2013-08-20  3:59     ` [PATCH 3/3] mm/shmem.c: " Chen Gang
2013-08-20  5:30 ` [PATCH 0/3] mm: mempolicy: the failure processing about mpol_to_str() Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-20  5:41   ` Chen Gang
2013-08-20  6:47     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-20  7:48       ` Chen Gang
2013-08-20  7:51         ` Chen Gang
2013-08-20  8:09           ` Chen Gang
2013-08-20  8:13             ` Chen Gang F T
2013-08-20  8:20               ` Chen Gang
2013-08-20  8:25             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-20  8:31               ` Chen Gang
2013-08-21  2:21               ` [PATCH 0/3] mm: shmem: check the return value of mpol_to_str() Chen Gang
2013-08-21  2:22                 ` [PATCH 1/3] fs/proc/task_mmu.c: " Chen Gang
2013-08-21  2:23                   ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/shmem.c: let shmem_show_mpol() return value Chen Gang
2013-08-21  2:24                     ` [PATCH 3/3] mm/shmem.c: check the return value of mpol_to_str() Chen Gang
2013-08-21 22:03                     ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/shmem.c: let shmem_show_mpol() return value Andrew Morton
2013-08-22  0:52                       ` Chen Gang
2013-08-22  1:04                         ` [PATCH] mm/shmem.c: check the return value of mpol_to_str() Chen Gang
2013-09-03  5:32                           ` Chen Gang
2013-09-05  0:24                           ` [PATCH v2] " Chen Gang
2013-09-09 20:30                             ` David Rientjes
2013-09-10  0:47                               ` Chen Gang
2013-09-10  6:43                                 ` David Rientjes
2013-09-10  7:01                                   ` Chen Gang
2013-09-12  0:33                                     ` David Rientjes
2013-09-12  2:19                                       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-09-12  3:13                                         ` Chen Gang
2013-09-13 21:12                                         ` David Rientjes
2013-09-14  2:51                                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-09-16  3:27                                             ` Chen Gang
2013-09-16 20:13                                               ` David Rientjes
2013-09-17  0:45                                                 ` Chen Gang
2013-09-17 22:51                                                   ` David Rientjes
2013-09-18  1:20                                                     ` Chen Gang
2013-09-12  3:02                                       ` Chen Gang
2013-09-12 18:19                                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-09-13  2:23                                           ` Chen Gang
2013-09-13 16:50                                             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-09-16  2:55                                               ` Chen Gang
2013-09-16 16:16                                                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-09-17  1:10                                                   ` Chen Gang
2013-09-17 22:53                                                     ` David Rientjes
2013-09-18  1:37                                                       ` Chen Gang
2013-09-18 22:17                                                         ` David Rientjes
2013-09-13 21:14                                         ` David Rientjes
2013-09-16  3:17                                           ` Chen Gang
2013-09-25  2:58                             ` [patch] mm, mempolicy: make mpol_to_str robust and always succeed David Rientjes
2013-09-25  3:11                               ` Dave Jones
2013-09-25  3:18                                 ` David Rientjes
2013-09-25  3:25                                   ` Dave Jones
2013-09-25 17:58                                     ` David Rientjes
2013-09-25 21:30                                       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-09-25 22:06                                         ` David Rientjes
2013-08-21  5:31                 ` [PATCH 0/3] mm: shmem: check the return value of mpol_to_str() Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-21  5:48                   ` Chen Gang

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