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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
	linux-aio@kvack.org, akpm@osdl.org, drepper@redhat.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jakub@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [FSAIO][PATCH 7/8] Filesystem AIO read
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:56:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061228085623.b6c74840.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0612281721170.23545@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:22:07 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> 
> On Dec 28 2006 11:57, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> >> +
> >> +		if ((error = __lock_page(page, current->io_wait))) {
> >> +			goto readpage_error;
> >> +		}
> >
> >This should  be
> >
> >		error = __lock_page(page, current->io_wait);
> >		if (error)
> >			goto readpage_error;
> 
> That's effectively the same. Essentially a style thing, and I see if((err =
> xyz)) not being uncommon in the kernel tree.

The combined if/assignment has been known to contain coding errors
that are legal C, just not what was intended.

Since the latter replacement shouldn't cause any code efficiency
problems and it's more readable, it's becoming preferred.

---
~Randy

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-28 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-27 15:38 [RFC] Heads up on a series of AIO patchsets Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-12-27 16:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-27 16:55   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-27 17:18     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-28 11:41   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-01-02 21:38     ` Dan Williams
2007-01-03 13:35       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-12-28  8:23 ` [PATCHSET 1][PATCH 0/6] Filesystem AIO read/write Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-12-28  8:34   ` [FSAIO][PATCH 1/6] Add a wait queue parameter to the wait_bit action routine Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-12-28  8:46     ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-12-28  8:36   ` [FSAIO][PATCH 2/8] Rename __lock_page to lock_page_slow Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-12-28  8:39   ` [FSAIO][PATCH 3/8] Routines to initialize and test a wait bit key Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-12-28 22:42     ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-28  8:39   ` [FSAIO][PATCH 4/8] Add a default io wait bit field in task struct Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-12-28  8:40   ` [FSAIO][PATCH 5/8] Enable wait bit based filtered wakeups to work for AIO Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-12-28  8:41   ` [FSAIO][PATCH 6/8] Enable asynchronous wait page and lock page Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-12-28 11:55     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-28 14:47       ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-01-02 14:26         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-04  6:50           ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-28  8:42   ` [FSAIO][PATCH 7/8] Filesystem AIO read Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-12-28 11:57     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-28 14:15       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-28 15:18       ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-01-02 14:29         ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-28 16:22       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-28 16:56         ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2006-12-28  8:44   ` [FSAIO][PATCH 8/8] AIO O_SYNC filesystem write Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-12-28  9:52   ` [PATCHSET 1][PATCH 0/6] Filesystem AIO read/write Ingo Molnar
2006-12-28 22:53   ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-03 22:15   ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04  4:56     ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-01-04  5:51       ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-04  6:26         ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-01-04  6:50           ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-04 11:24             ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-01-05  4:56               ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-04 17:02       ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 17:49         ` Jens Axboe
2007-01-05  6:28         ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-01-05  7:02           ` Jens Axboe
2007-01-05  8:08             ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-01-05  8:32               ` Jens Axboe
2007-01-10  5:44         ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-01-11  1:08           ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-11  3:13             ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-01-11  4:52               ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-02 23:56 ` [RFC] Heads up on a series of AIO patchsets Zach Brown
     [not found]   ` <6f703f960701021640y444bc537w549fd6d74f3e9529@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <A85B8249-FC4E-4612-8B28-02BC680DC812@oracle.com>
2007-01-03  1:18       ` Kent Overstreet
2007-01-04 20:33         ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-03  5:03   ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-01-05  0:36     ` Zach Brown
2007-01-03  7:23 ` [PATCHSET 2][PATCH 1/1] Combining epoll and disk file AIO Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-01-04  9:27 ` [PATCHSET 3][PATCH 0/5][AIO] - AIO completion signal notification v4 Bharata B Rao
2007-01-04  9:30   ` [PATCHSET 3][PATCH 1/5][AIO] - Rework compat_sys_io_submit Bharata B Rao
2007-01-04  9:32   ` [PATCHSET 3][PATCH 2/5][AIO] - fix aio.h includes Bharata B Rao
2007-01-04  9:34   ` [PATCHSET 3][PATCH 3/5][AIO] - Make good_sigevent non-static Bharata B Rao
2007-01-04  9:38   ` [PATCHSET 3][PATCH 4/5][AIO] - AIO completion signal notification Bharata B Rao
2007-01-04  9:40   ` [PATCHSET 3][PATCH 5/5][AIO] - Add listio support Bharata B Rao
2007-01-05  5:32 ` [PATCHSET 4][PATCH 1/1] AIO fallback for pipes, sockets and pollable fds Suparna Bhattacharya

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