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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1802151104140.2970@nuc-kabylake>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:06:54 -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 Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> I dunno.  Yes, there's macro trickery going on here, but it certainly
> resembles a function.  It doesn't fail any of the rules laid out in that
> chapter of coding-style about unacceptable uses of macros.

It sure looks like a function but does magic things with the struct
parameter. So its not working like a function and the capitalization makes
one aware of that.



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