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SubjectRe: [PATCH] trace: Add a free on close control mechanism for buffer_size_kb
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On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 11:00 -0700, Vaibhav Nagarnaik wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> >
> > What you should do is just check if ret is less than zero here.
> >
> > if (ret < 0)
> > ret = -ENOMEM;
>
> Instead, I don't have to check/set the return value. I can just return
> "ret" to the caller.

Actually, ret could be -1, if we end up with a miss match in global vs
max buffers. But that is more of an anomaly. Maybe the solution there is
to have that return -ENOMEM as well?

-- Steve




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