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From: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: replace a wrong memset() with memzero_page()
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 09:15:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ad5f566-8d80-e090-ddae-c409786dcf2d@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yj3v+MnFOXeeAU9d@infradead.org>



On 2022/3/26 00:38, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 05:37:59PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>> -	u32 len = fs_info->sectorsize;
>> +	const u32 len = fs_info->sectorsize;
> 
> Why the spurious and rather pointless const annotation that is unrelated
> to the rest of the patch?

Because we prefer const for constant variables in btrfs code.

As we have experienced some bugs in the past related to reusing some 
variables.

> 
>>   					     BTRFS_DEV_STAT_CORRUPTION_ERRS);
>> -	memset(kaddr + pgoff, 1, len);
>> +	memzero_page(page, pgoff, len);
>>   	flush_dcache_page(page);
> 
> memzero_page already takes care of the flush_dcache_page.
> 

Oh, indeed.

Thanks,
Qu


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-26  1:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-25  9:37 [PATCH] btrfs: replace a wrong memset() with memzero_page() Qu Wenruo
2022-03-25 10:10 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2022-03-25 10:49   ` Qu Wenruo
2022-03-25 10:58     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2022-03-25 16:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-26  1:15   ` Qu Wenruo [this message]
2022-04-05  4:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-05  5:08     ` Qu Wenruo
2022-04-05 14:04       ` David Sterba
2022-04-05 13:59     ` David Sterba
2022-03-28 18:51 ` David Sterba
2022-03-28 18:58   ` David Sterba
2022-03-29  9:57   ` Filipe Manana
2022-03-29 10:49     ` Qu Wenruo
2022-03-29 11:39       ` Filipe Manana
2022-03-29 23:52         ` Qu Wenruo
2022-03-30  9:27           ` Filipe Manana
2022-03-30 10:34             ` Filipe Manana
2022-03-30 10:42               ` Qu Wenruo
2022-03-30 11:02                 ` Filipe Manana
2022-03-30 11:03                 ` Graham Cobb
2022-03-30 21:34                   ` Filipe Manana
2022-03-30 22:29                     ` Graham Cobb

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