[RFC 4/4] eal/malloc: remove type argument from internal malloc routines

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:16:27 -0700
Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla at linux.microsoft.com> wrote:

> > 
> > diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memzone.c b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memzone.c
> > index 32e6b78f87..2d9b6aa3e3 100644
> > --- a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memzone.c
> > +++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memzone.c
> > @@ -191,14 +191,12 @@ memzone_reserve_aligned_thread_unsafe(const char *name, size_t len,
> >  	if (len == 0 && bound == 0) {
> >  		/* no size constraints were placed, so use malloc elem len */
> >  		requested_len = 0;
> > -		mz_addr = malloc_heap_alloc_biggest(NULL, socket_id, flags,
> > -				align, contig);
> > +		mz_addr = malloc_heap_alloc_biggest(socket_id, flags, align, contig);  
> 
> i may have missed if this was discussed already. for the public api i
> understand for now we need to keep the unused parameter in the function
> signatures but for internal api/functions i would prefer the parameter
> be removed entirely.
> 
> also somewhat related side-note i don't think msvc has a way of marking
> function parameters unused as is done with __rte_unused. currently i
> expand the macro empty and suppress the warning globally which is not
> great.

I dropped the parameter from all the internal routines. Are you suggesting having
an different name/version for use internally?