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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:15:09 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ddb db_command.c db_thread.c src/sys/vm vm_object.c vm_pageout.c src/sys/i386/i386 pmap.c src/sys/i386/ibcs2 ibcs2_sysvec.c
Message-ID:  <45AE75BD.8060703@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200701171105.36393.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200701171505.l0HF5qGd068469@repoman.freebsd.org> <200701171105.36393.jhb@freebsd.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 10:05, Xin LI wrote:
>> delphij     2007-01-17 15:05:52 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/ddb              db_command.c db_thread.c 
>>     sys/vm               vm_object.c vm_pageout.c 
>>     sys/i386/i386        pmap.c 
>>     sys/i386/ibcs2       ibcs2_sysvec.c 
>>   Log:
>>   Use FOREACH_PROC_IN_SYSTEM instead of using its unrolled form.
> 
> I actually think this macro is actually not that useful and I'd rather
> we get rid of it. :)  For one thing zombies are still processes and this
> doesn't cover those, so the name is a bit misleading.  However, this is a 
> minor thing, and I can see that the kernel should be consistent one way or 
> another.  I'd just vote for being consistent by removing FOREACH_PROC and 
> FOREACH_THREAD.  The kernel doesn't use wrappers for other lists, it just 
> uses LIST_FOREACH and TAILQ_FOREACH directly.
> 

I personally prefer to use them and one reason to do so is to allow
the macros to be changed to check locking etc.



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