Commits squashed.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Barret Rhoden <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi -
>
> On 2015-11-13 at 19:54 "'Davide Libenzi' via Akaros"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Coming to error(), should I always waserror() in my code, even if I
> > have nothing to be undone?
> > Because, that kinda defeats the exception-look-alike error model.
>
> I think no.  You only need a waserror if you need to cleanup if a
> function you call throws.  If you have nothing to cleanup or if you
> know that you don't call something that might throw, then you don't
> need a waserror block.
>
> > circular_buffer_write already has the comments in its body, which
> > describes the operation.
> > Adding some more to the skip API.
>
> What I was getting at is that if someone looks at the code for
> circular_buffer.h or circular_buffer.c, they won't know what it does
> without looking into the code.  This makes it more difficult to use.
>
> Compare that to kern/include/trace.h, which has a bit of an explanation
> and tells people how to use it.
>
> > I added two commits (WIP:PROFILER and WIP:KPROF) at the end of the
> > stream, which did not squash in the proper place yet.
> > Take a look. I really do not like the idea of having resources left
> > allocated when the functionalities are not used.
>
> It seems okay.  I understand the desire to free unused resources, but
> the tradeoff is complexity and possible bugs.  I don't know that a
> small amount of RAM is worth that.  But we'll see how this works out. =)
>
> Anyway, once you squash those last two commits or do any other stuff,
> let me know and I'll merge your latest.
>
> Barret
>
>
>
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