Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757062AbZCDAcw (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:32:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755498AbZCDAcc (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:32:32 -0500 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:47164 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754445AbZCDAcb (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:32:31 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] c/r: Add CR_COPY() macro (v3) From: Dave Hansen To: Dan Smith Cc: containers@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1236095764-19325-3-git-send-email-danms@us.ibm.com> References: <1236095764-19325-1-git-send-email-danms@us.ibm.com> <1236095764-19325-3-git-send-email-danms@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:22:12 -0800 Message-Id: <1236097332.22399.8.camel@nimitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 643 Lines: 15 On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 10:56 -0500, Dan Smith wrote: > As suggested by Dave[1], this provides us a way to make the copy-in and > copy-out processes symmetric. CR_COPY_ARRAY() provides us a way to do > the same thing but for arrays. It's not critical, but it helps us unify > the checkpoint and restart paths for some things. Did you convince Nathan that this ends up being a good idea? -- Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/