mm/slab: avoid returning values by reference

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>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 85e394f5918c..4f4e6472db5b 100644
--- 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;