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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: generalize VM_BUG_ON() macros
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 12:03:30 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1410021202370.4190@gentwo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141001130523.d7cf46e735089d681194e8e6@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 1 Oct 2014, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I can't say I'm a fan of this.  We don't do this sort of thing anywhere
> else in the kernel and passing different types to the same thing in
> different places is unusual and exceptional.  We gain very little from
> this so why bother?

I feel the same. This smells awfully like C++ overloading of functions
etc which I think often confuses the heck out of people.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-02 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-01 11:31 Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-01 11:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: use VM_BUG_ON instead of VM_BUG_ON_PAGE everywhere Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-01 11:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: use VM_BUG_ON() instead of VM_BUG_ON_VMA() and VM_BUG_ON_MM() Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-01 11:39 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: generalize VM_BUG_ON() macros Sasha Levin
2014-10-01 13:18   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-01 20:05 ` Andrew Morton
2014-10-02 14:11   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-02 17:03   ` Christoph Lameter [this message]

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