Re: [patch 5/6] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES flag

[Paul Jackson]

David wrote:
+static nodemask_t mpol_relative_nodemask(const nodemask_t *orig,
+					 const nodemask_t *rel)
+{
+	nodemask_t ret;
+	nodemask_t tmp;

Could you avoid needing the nodemask_t 'ret' on the stack, by passing
in a "nodemask_t *" pointer to where you want the resulting nodemask_t
written, rather than by returning it by value?

 static void mpol_relative_nodemask(nodemask_t *ret, const nodemask_t *orig,
					 const nodemask_t *rel)

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