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mm/slab: avoid returning values by reference
authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:54:53 +0000 (14:54 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 23:55:16 +0000 (16:55 -0700)
Returing values by reference is bad practice.  Instead, just use
function return value.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Suggested-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slab.c

index 85e394f5918cc71daf05e9c7f0f46caf30241a4b..4f4e6472db5b893324174f7cddb3890fd30fd812 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -460,9 +460,10 @@ static inline struct array_cache *cpu_cache_get(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
 /*
  * Calculate the number of objects and left-over bytes for a given buffer size.
  */
-static void cache_estimate(unsigned long gfporder, size_t buffer_size,
-               unsigned long flags, size_t *left_over, unsigned int *num)
+static unsigned int cache_estimate(unsigned long gfporder, size_t buffer_size,
+               unsigned long flags, size_t *left_over)
 {
+       unsigned int num;
        size_t slab_size = PAGE_SIZE << gfporder;
 
        /*
@@ -483,13 +484,15 @@ static void cache_estimate(unsigned long gfporder, size_t buffer_size,
         * correct alignment when allocated.
         */
        if (flags & (CFLGS_OBJFREELIST_SLAB | CFLGS_OFF_SLAB)) {
-               *num = slab_size / buffer_size;
+               num = slab_size / buffer_size;
                *left_over = slab_size % buffer_size;
        } else {
-               *num = slab_size / (buffer_size + sizeof(freelist_idx_t));
+               num = slab_size / (buffer_size + sizeof(freelist_idx_t));
                *left_over = slab_size %
                        (buffer_size + sizeof(freelist_idx_t));
        }
+
+       return num;
 }
 
 #if DEBUG
@@ -1893,7 +1896,7 @@ static size_t calculate_slab_order(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
                unsigned int num;
                size_t remainder;
 
-               cache_estimate(gfporder, size, flags, &remainder, &num);
+               num = cache_estimate(gfporder, size, flags, &remainder);
                if (!num)
                        continue;