Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: Remove unnecessary kmalloc() cast

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 09:13:35 +0200 Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> yes that is 
> intentionally a define and not an inline function.
> 
> See this patch here which changed that:
> 
> commit 2c321f3f70bc284510598f712b702ce8d60c4d14
> Author: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Sun Apr 14 19:07:31 2024 -0700
> 
>      mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site

Dang, yes, that was a regrettable change.  But hardly the end of the
world.  I do think each such alteration should have included a comment
to prevent people from going and cleaning them up.