From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] iomap: add struct iomap_ctx
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:26:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgvROUnrEVADVR_zTHY8NmYo-_jVjV37O1MdDm2de+Lmw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgcPAfOSigMf0xwaGfVjw413XN3UPATwYWHrss+QuivhQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 11:39 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> 'loff_t length' is not right.
Looking around, it does seem to get used that way. Too much, though.
> > + loff_t pos = data->pos;
> > + loff_t length = pos + data->len;
>
> And WTH is that? "pos + data->len" is not "length", that's end. And this:
>
> > loff_t end = pos + length, done = 0;
>
> What? Now 'end' is 'pos+length', which is 'pos+pos+data->len'.
But this is unrelated to the crazy types. That just can't bve right.
> Is there some reason for this horrible case of "let's allow 64-bit sizes?"
>
> Because even if there is, it shouldn't be "loff_t". That's an
> _offset_. Not a length.
We do seem to have a lot of these across filesystems. And a lot of
confusion. Most of the IO reoutines clearly take or return a size_t
(returning ssize_t) as the IO size. And then you have the
zeroing/truncation stuff that tends to take loff_t. Which still smells
wrong, and s64 would look like a better case, but whatever.
The "iomap_zero_range() for truncate" case really does seem to need a
64-bit value, because people do the difference of two loff_t's for it.
In fact, it almost looks like that function should take a "start ,
end" pair, which would make loff_t be the _right_ thing.
Because "length" really is just (a positive) size_t normally.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-17 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-17 14:39 [PATCHSET v5 0/6] Support for RWF_UNCACHED Jens Axboe
2019-12-17 14:39 ` [PATCH 1/6] fs: add read support " Jens Axboe
2019-12-17 15:16 ` Guoqing Jiang
2019-12-17 16:42 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-17 15:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-12-17 16:41 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-18 3:17 ` Dave Chinner
2019-12-17 14:39 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm: make generic_perform_write() take a struct kiocb Jens Axboe
2019-12-17 14:39 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm: make buffered writes work with RWF_UNCACHED Jens Axboe
2019-12-17 14:39 ` [PATCH 4/6] iomap: add struct iomap_ctx Jens Axboe
2019-12-17 19:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-17 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-12-18 0:15 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-18 1:25 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-12-17 14:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] iomap: support RWF_UNCACHED for buffered writes Jens Axboe
2019-12-18 1:52 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-12-18 3:18 ` Jens Axboe
2019-12-18 4:15 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-12-17 14:39 ` [PATCH 6/6] xfs: don't do delayed allocations for uncached " Jens Axboe
2019-12-18 1:57 ` Darrick J. Wong
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