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SubjectRe: [PATCH 05/12] mm: alloc_contig_range() added
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> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 15:16 +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>> + ret = 0;
>> + while (!PageBuddy(pfn_to_page(start & (~0UL << ret))))
>> + if (WARN_ON(++ret >= MAX_ORDER))
>> + return -EINVAL;

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:02:41 +0200, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Holy cow, that's dense. Is there really no more straightforward way to
> do that?

Which part exactly is dense? What would be qualify as a more
straightforward way?

> In any case, please pull the ++ret bit out of the WARN_ON(). Some
> people like to do:
>
> #define WARN_ON(...) do{}while(0)
>
> to save space on some systems.

I don't think that's the case. Even if WARN_ON() decides not to print
a warning, it will still return the value of the argument. If not,
a lot of code will brake.

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