On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 09:05:51AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > #define kfree_rcu(ptr, rcu_head) \ > > __kfree_rcu(&((ptr)->rcu_head), offsetof(typeof(*(ptr)), rcu_head)) > > Isn't this one of those cases where the obvious use of the interface is > definitely wrong?
But it's a compile time breakage if you use it wrong, not runtime. > It's also another nasty pseudo C prototype. I know we do this sort of > thing for container_of et al, but I don't really think we want to extend > it. We do it for list_entry, list_for_each_entry, etc. And those are very widespread within the kernel. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.open-fcoe.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
