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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1802150953080.1902@nuc-kabylake>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:55:11 -0600 (CST)
From: Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
    Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
    Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
    kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Add kvmalloc_ab_c and kvzalloc_struct

On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> > Uppercase like the similar KMEM_CACHE related macros in
> > include/linux/slab.h?>
>
> Do you think that would look better in the users?  Compare:

Does looking matter? I thought we had the convention that macros are
uppercase. There are some tricks going on with the struct. Uppercase shows
that something special is going on.

> Making it look like a function is more pleasing to my eye, but I'll
> change it if that's the only thing keeping it from being merged.

This should be consistent throughout the source.

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