Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] mm/gup: fix omission of check on FOLL_LONGTERM in get_user_pages_fast()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jun 04 2019 - 03:21:36 EST


On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 03:13:21PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> Is it a convention? scripts/checkpatch.pl can not detect it. Could you
> show me some light so later I can avoid it?

If you look at most kernel code you can see two conventions:

- double tabe indent
- indent to the start of the first agument line

Everything else is rather unusual.