Re: lustre: question about lov_request.c

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Sun Jun 07 2015 - 17:06:55 EST


On Sun, 7 Jun 2015, Drokin, Oleg wrote:

> Hello!
>
> You are right, set_pga seems to be a dead member. It was alive a once, but somehow not fully removed now,
> so it's safe to drop the whole if and also the struct member itself.
> set_oabufs could be dropped as well.

Thanks. I will do that.

julia

>
> Thanks.
>
> Bye,
> Oleg
> On Jun 7, 2015, at 4:11 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > The function lov_finish_set in
> > drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_request.c contains the code:
> >
> > if (set->set_pga) {
> > int len = set->set_oabufs * sizeof(*set->set_pga);
> > OBD_FREE_LARGE(set->set_pga, len);
> > }
> >
> > If I change the call to OBD_FREE_LARGE to kvfree, then len is not useful
> > any more. But actually, at least with grep, I can't find anywhere that
> > either the set_pga field or the set_oabufs field is set. Am I missing
> > something, or can the whole if be removed? Can these two fields go too?
> >
> > thanks,
> > julia
>
>
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