From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] mm: Add file_offset_of_ helpers
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:49:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190918234924.GE9880@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190918211755.GC2229799@magnolia>
On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 02:17:55PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 05:30:36PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
> >
> > The page_offset function is badly named for people reading the functions
> > which call it. The natural meaning of a function with this name would
> > be 'offset within a page', not 'page offset in bytes within a file'.
> > Dave Chinner suggests file_offset_of_page() as a replacement function
> > name and I'm also adding file_offset_of_next_page() as a helper for the
> > large page work. Also add kernel-doc for these functions so they show
> > up in the kernel API book.
> >
> > page_offset() is retained as a compatibility define for now.
>
> No SOB?
>
> Looks fine to me, and I appreciate the much less confusing name. I was
> hoping for a page_offset conversion for fs/iomap/ (and not a treewide
> change because yuck), but I guess that can be done if and when this
> lands.
Sure, I'll do that once everything else has landed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-18 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-21 0:30 [PATCH v2 0/5] iomap & xfs support for large pages Matthew Wilcox
2019-08-21 0:30 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] fs: Introduce i_blocks_per_page Matthew Wilcox
2019-08-23 12:26 ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-18 21:14 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-09-18 23:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-08-21 0:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mm: Add file_offset_of_ helpers Matthew Wilcox
2019-08-23 12:49 ` kbuild test robot
2019-08-24 11:48 ` kbuild test robot
2019-08-24 15:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-09-18 21:17 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-09-18 23:49 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2019-09-19 0:04 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-08-21 0:30 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] iomap: Support large pages Matthew Wilcox
2019-08-23 12:48 ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-18 21:29 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-08-21 0:30 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] xfs: " Matthew Wilcox
2019-09-18 21:31 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-08-21 0:30 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] xfs: Pass a page to xfs_finish_page_writeback Matthew Wilcox
2019-09-18 21:32 ` Darrick J. Wong
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