Re: [PATCH] trace: Add a free on close control mechanism for buffer_size_kb

[Vaibhav Nagarnaik]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 11:00 -0700, Vaibhav Nagarnaik wrote:
>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > What you should do is just check if ret is less than zero here.
>> >
>> >        if (ret < 0)
>> >                ret = -ENOMEM;
>>
>> Instead, I don't have to check/set the return value. I can just return
>> "ret" to the caller.
>
> Actually, ret could be -1, if we end up with a miss match in global vs
> max buffers. But that is more of an anomaly. Maybe the solution there is
> to have that return -ENOMEM as well?

Sure, I missed that. Corrected patch coming up!


>
> -- Steve
>
>
>

Vaibhav Nagarnaik
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