From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dax: Fix Xarray conversion of dax_unlock_mapping_entry()
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 08:33:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4gBwtCxN4xTncsyShMwMzNiLG3SxKA-frYh9Fn-f6QV=g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181130162435.GM10377@bombadil.infradead.org>
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 8:24 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 07:54:49AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Looks good to me, although can we make that cookie an actual type? I
> > think it's mostly ok to pass around (void *) for 'entry' inside of
> > fs/dax.c, but once an entry leaves that file I'd like it to have an
> > explicit type to catch people that might accidentally pass a (struct
> > page *) to the unlock routine.
>
> That's a really good idea. Something like this?
>
> typedef struct {
> void *v;
> } dax_entry_t;
Yes, please.
> I could see us making good use of that within dax.c.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-01 3:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-30 0:13 [PATCH] dax: Fix Xarray conversion of dax_unlock_mapping_entry() Dan Williams
2018-11-30 15:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-11-30 15:54 ` Dan Williams
2018-11-30 16:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-11-30 16:33 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2018-11-30 17:01 ` Dan Williams
2018-11-30 19:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-11-30 20:05 ` Dan Williams
2018-12-04 3:33 ` Dan Williams
2018-12-05 1:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-05 6:11 ` Dan Williams
2018-12-05 9:22 ` Jan Kara
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