Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Add kvmalloc_ab_c and kvzalloc_struct

From: Christopher Lameter
Date: Thu Feb 15 2018 - 10:55:18 EST


On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> > Uppercase like the similar KMEM_CACHE related macros in
> > include/linux/slab.h?>
>
> Do you think that would look better in the users? Compare:

Does looking matter? I thought we had the convention that macros are
uppercase. There are some tricks going on with the struct. Uppercase shows
that something special is going on.

> Making it look like a function is more pleasing to my eye, but I'll
> change it if that's the only thing keeping it from being merged.

This should be consistent throughout the source.