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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: sj@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND MERGE REQUEST] mm/damon: move damon_rand() definition into damon.h
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 15:12:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211202151213.6ec830863342220da4141bc5@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211202075859.51341-1-xhao@linux.alibaba.com>

On Thu,  2 Dec 2021 15:58:59 +0800 Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> damon_rand() is called in three files:damon/core.c, damon/
> paddr.c, damon/vaddr.c, i think there is no need to redefine
> this twice, So move it to damon.h will be a good choice.

Fair enough.

> +/* Get a random number in [l, r) */
> +#define damon_rand(l, r) (l + prandom_u32_max(r - l))

This shouldn't be implemented as a macro, for all the usual reasons
(typechecking, side-effects, ugliness, code-documentation site, etc).

In particular, this expression references `l' twice, so calling

	damon_rand(a++, b);

will increment `a' twice, surprise surprise.

Can someone please send a followup patch to convert this (and any
similar damon macros) into (probably static inlined) C functions?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-02 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-02  7:58 Xin Hao
2021-12-02 23:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2021-12-03  9:19   ` SeongJae Park
2021-12-06  5:20     ` Xin Hao
2021-12-06  6:28       ` SeongJae Park
2021-12-06  7:44         ` Xin Hao

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