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Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:27:31 +0200
From:   "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
To:     "Alexei Starovoitov" <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc:     "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@kernel.org>,
        "Yafang Shao" <laoar.shao@gmail.com>,
        "Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@kernel.org>,
        "Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
        "Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii@kernel.org>,
        "Hou Tao" <houtao1@huawei.com>,
        "Martin KaFai Lau" <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
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        "John Fastabend" <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
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        "Stanislav Fomichev" <sdf@google.com>,
        "Hao Luo" <haoluo@google.com>, "Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: force inc_active()/dec_active() to be inline functions
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2023, at 20:15, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 1:41=E2=80=AFPM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> =
wrote:
>>
>> Sure, that's fine. Between this and the two suggestions I had
>> (__always_inline or passing the flags from  inc_active as a
>> return code), I don't have a strong preference, so pick whichever
>> you like.
>
> I think:
> static void dec_active(struct bpf_mem_cache *c, unsigned long *flags)
> is cleaner.
> Could you send a patch?

Ok, done,

     Arnd