From: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>,
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>,
Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
"Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
"Dave Chinner" <david@fromorbit.com>,
Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org>, Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>,
Miao Xie <miaoxie@huawei.com>,
Li Guifu <bluce.liguifu@huawei.com>,
Fang Wei <fangwei1@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/24] erofs: add on-disk layout
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 01:26:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190829172602.GA228414@architecture4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67d6efbbc9ac6db23215660cb970b7ef29dc0c1d.camel@perches.com>
Hi Joe,
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 08:58:17AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 18:32 +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> > Hi Christoph,
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 02:59:54AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ b/fs/erofs/erofs_fs.h
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,316 @@
> > > > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR Apache-2.0 */
> > > > +/*
> > > > + * linux/fs/erofs/erofs_fs.h
> > >
> > > Please remove the pointless file names in the comment headers.
> >
> > Already removed in the latest version.
> >
> > > > +struct erofs_super_block {
> > > > +/* 0 */__le32 magic; /* in the little endian */
> > > > +/* 4 */__le32 checksum; /* crc32c(super_block) */
> > > > +/* 8 */__le32 features; /* (aka. feature_compat) */
> > > > +/* 12 */__u8 blkszbits; /* support block_size == PAGE_SIZE only */
> > >
> > > Please remove all the byte offset comments. That is something that can
> > > easily be checked with gdb or pahole.
> >
> > I have no idea the actual issue here.
> > It will help all developpers better add fields or calculate
> > these offsets in their mind, and with care.
> >
> > Rather than they didn't run "gdb" or "pahole" and change it by mistake.
>
> I think Christoph is not right here.
>
> Using external tools for validation is extra work
> when necessary for understanding the code.
>
> The expected offset is somewhat valuable, but
> perhaps the form is a bit off given the visual
> run-in to the field types.
>
> The extra work with this form is manipulating all
> the offsets whenever a structure change occurs.
>
> The comments might be better with a form more like:
Thanks for your comment.
I will change those places as you suggested, that is fine.
Thanks,
Gao Xiang
>
> struct erofs_super_block { /* offset description */
> __le32 magic; /* 0 */
> __le32 checksum; /* 4 crc32c(super_block) */
> __le32 features; /* 8 (aka. feature_compat) */
> __u8 blkszbits; /* 12 support block_size == PAGE_SIZE only */
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-29 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-02 12:53 [PATCH v6 00/24] erofs: promote erofs from staging Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 01/24] erofs: add on-disk layout Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 9:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 10:32 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 10:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 10:58 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 15:58 ` Joe Perches
2019-08-29 17:26 ` Gao Xiang [this message]
2019-08-30 12:07 ` David Sterba
2019-08-30 12:18 ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02 8:43 ` Pavel Machek
2019-09-02 14:07 ` David Sterba
2019-09-03 11:27 ` Pavel Machek
2019-08-29 15:41 ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-01 7:54 ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02 12:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-02 13:02 ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02 8:40 ` Pavel Machek
2019-09-02 10:35 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 02/24] erofs: add erofs in-memory stuffs Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 03/24] erofs: add super block operations Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 10:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 10:50 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 16:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-30 17:15 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-31 0:54 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-31 6:34 ` Amir Goldstein
2019-08-31 6:48 ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-01 8:54 ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02 12:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-02 14:43 ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02 15:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-02 15:24 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 04/24] erofs: add raw address_space operations Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 10:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 11:46 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 16:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-30 17:23 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 05/24] erofs: add inode operations Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 10:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 11:59 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 16:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-30 18:46 ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-01 9:34 ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02 12:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-02 13:43 ` David Sterba
2019-09-02 13:55 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 06/24] erofs: support special inode Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 10:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-01 9:39 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 07/24] erofs: add directory operations Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 08/24] erofs: add namei functions Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 10:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 11:28 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 09/24] erofs: support tracepoint Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 10/24] erofs: update Kconfig and Makefile Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 11/24] erofs: introduce xattr & posixacl support Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 12/24] erofs: introduce tagged pointer Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 13/24] erofs: add compression indexes support Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 14/24] erofs: introduce superblock registration Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 15/24] erofs: introduce erofs shrinker Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 16/24] erofs: introduce workstation for decompression Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 17/24] erofs: introduce per-CPU buffers implementation Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 18/24] erofs: introduce pagevec for decompression subsystem Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 19/24] erofs: add erofs_allocpage() Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 20/24] erofs: introduce generic decompression backend Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 21/24] erofs: introduce LZ4 decompression inplace Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 22/24] erofs: introduce the decompression frontend Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 23/24] erofs: introduce cached decompression Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 24/24] erofs: add document Gao Xiang
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