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From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:05:03 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:

> Ah, it is my policy that the error or information message is shown
> by caller (since caller can also ignore that, e.g. passing the
> testing data), not from the library code.
> I learned that from perf-probe and ftrace, sometimes the library
> code reused in unexpected way. So I decided to decouple the
> generating error message and showing it.

OK, then we can just pass the number of nodes allocated via a pointer
to an integer.

Thanks!

-- Steve