Re: [PATCH] slab: Use %s instead of function name

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: gumingtao <gumingtao1225@gmail.com>,
	cl@linux.com, penberg@kernel.org, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	gumingtao <gumingtao@xiaomi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: Use %s instead of function name
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 12:32:53 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c51952f7-a355-b038-4377-f6673c413d1f@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKXUXMxyDaEnWeGNZpCmAFG-5OG0JVrHz0RPk18n_z+ZDKQ-cQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 18 Jun 2021, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:

> > It is better to replace the function name with %s.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: gumingtao <gumingtao@xiaomi.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/slab_common.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
> > index a4a5714..36127dc 100644
> > --- a/mm/slab_common.c
> > +++ b/mm/slab_common.c
> > @@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ kmem_cache_create_usercopy(const char *name,
> >                         panic("kmem_cache_create: Failed to create slab '%s'. Error %d\n",
> 
> I am just wondering:
> 
> Can you also make that refactoring change for the panic() call as well?
> 
> How about checking the whole file for such patterns and doing that
> change for all occurrences?
> 

Yeah, that would be ideal if gumingtao is willing to do it.  These are 
some instances where the function name actually mismatches.  gumingtao, 
would you be willing to do this?