From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7][QUOTA] Move sysctl management code under ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:31:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47551E79.6080802@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071204012301.4349bbd0.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:58:30 +0300 Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> wrote:
>
>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
>>>> register_sysctl_table(sys_table);
>>>> +#endif
>>>>
>>>> dquot_cachep = kmem_cache_create("dquot",
>>>> sizeof(struct dquot), sizeof(unsigned long) * 4,
>>> We should avoid the ifdefs around the register_sysctl_table() call.
>>>
>>> At present the !CONFIG_SYSCTL implementation of register_sysctl_table() is
>>> a non-inlined NULL-returning stub. All we have to do is to inline that stub
>>> then these ifdefs can go away.
>> What if some code checks for the return value to be not-NULL? In case
>> CONFIG_SYSCTL=n this code will always think, that the registration failed.
>
> The stub function should return success?
Well, I think yes. If some functionality is turned off, then the
caller should think that everything is going fine (or he should
explicitly removes the call to it with some other ifdef).
At least this is true for stubs that return the error code, not
the pointer. E.g. copy_semundo() always returns success if SYSVIPC
is off, or namespaces cloning routines act in a similar way.
Thus I though, that routines, that return pointers should better
report that everything is OK (somehow) to reduce the number of
"helpers" in the outer code. No?
Thanks,
Pavel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-30 12:58 [PATCH 0/7] Start using sysctl paths in the core kernel code Pavel Emelyanov
2007-11-30 13:02 ` [PATCH 1/7][QUOTA] Move sysctl management code under ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL Pavel Emelyanov
2007-12-03 21:38 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-03 23:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-04 8:58 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2007-12-04 9:23 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-04 9:31 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2007-12-04 9:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-04 11:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-04 11:48 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-04 11:58 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2007-12-04 12:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-30 13:04 ` [PATCH 2/7][QUOTA] Use sysctl paths to register tables Pavel Emelyanov
2007-11-30 13:09 ` [PATCH 3/7][SYSVIPC] Use the ctl " Pavel Emelyanov
2007-11-30 13:11 ` [PATCH 4/7][SCHED] " Pavel Emelyanov
2007-11-30 13:13 ` [PATCH 5/7][UTS] " Pavel Emelyanov
2007-11-30 13:16 ` [PATCH 6/7][MQUEUE] Move sysctl management code under ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL Pavel Emelyanov
2007-11-30 13:18 ` [PATCH 7/7][MQUEUE] Use the ctl paths to register tables Pavel Emelyanov
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