From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx158.postini.com [74.125.245.158]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A1696B004D for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 21:01:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ghrr18 with SMTP id r18so145754ghr.14 for ; Tue, 01 May 2012 18:01:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 18:01:47 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [RFC] vmalloc: add warning in __vmalloc In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1335516144-3486-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Minchan Kim , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, Neil Brown , Artem Bityutskiy , David Woodhouse , Theodore Ts'o , Adrian Hunter , Steven Whitehouse , "David S. Miller" , James Morris , Alexander Viro , Sage Weil On Wed, 2 May 2012, Nick Piggin wrote: > Because it needs to be an ongoing thing, which is caught as soon as the > developer writes some code, rather than continually audited for and fixed > up after the fact. There is not a good way to enforce this at compile time. > > The existing callers do need to be fixed too, of course. > I'm asking that existing callers be fixed up before such a warning is introduced. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org