On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 03:10:57PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
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> * Randy Dunlap (randy.dunlap@oracle.com) wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:57:37 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

[ . . . ]

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> > > +#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_SMP */
> > 
> > I don't know that we have a known convention for that, but I would use:
> > 
> > #else /* not CONFIG_SMP */
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > #else /* !CONFIG_SMP */
> > 
> > > +
> > > +SYSCALL_DEFINE1(membarrier, unsigned int, flags)
> > > +{
> > > +	return 0;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_SMP */
> > 
> > and:
> > 
> > #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
> > 
> > The "#else #ifdef" is both ugly and too wordy IMO.

The extra words make it very clear that we are in at the end of the #else
clause of a #ifdef with the given condition.  With "#endif /* CONFIG_SMP
*/", is the immediately preceding code compiled under CONFIG_SMP or
!CONFIG_SMP?  You have to dig back and see whether or not there is a
#else clause.

But there is no accounting for taste.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

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> OK. I merely followed the coding style of the code added to sched.c by Paul
> McKenney. But you are right, the rest of sched.c does as you say:
> 
> #else /* !CONFIG_SMP */
> 
> #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
> 
> Will fix.
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> Mathieu
> 
> > 
> > > +
> > >  #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
> > >  
> > >  int rcu_expedited_torture_stats(char *page)
> > 
> > 
> > ---
> > ~Randy
> > 
> 
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> Mathieu Desnoyers
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