From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 19:58:15 -0800 From: Matthew Wilcox To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox , Ross Zwisler , David Howells , Shaohua Li , Jens Axboe , Rehas Sachdeva , Marc Zyngier , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/78] xarray: Add the xa_lock to the radix_tree_root Message-ID: <20171227035815.GD24828@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20171215220450.7899-1-willy@infradead.org> <20171215220450.7899-4-willy@infradead.org> <20171226165440.tv6inwa2fgk3bfy6@node.shutemov.name> <20171227034340.GC24828@bombadil.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171227034340.GC24828@bombadil.infradead.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 07:43:40PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Also add the xa_lock() and xa_unlock() family of wrappers to make it > easier to use the lock. If we could rely on -fplan9-extensions in > the compiler, we could avoid all of this syntactic sugar, but that > wasn't added until gcc 4.6. Oh, in case anyone's wondering, here's how I'd do it with plan9 extensions: struct xarray { spinlock_t; int xa_flags; void *xa_head; }; ... spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->pages, flags); __delete_from_page_cache(page, NULL); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->pages, flags); ... The plan9 extensions permit passing a pointer to a struct which has an unnamed element to a function which is expecting a pointer to the type of that element. The compiler does any necessary arithmetic to produce a pointer. It's exactly as if I had written: spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->pages.xa_lock, flags); __delete_from_page_cache(page, NULL); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->pages.xa_lock, flags); More details here: https://9p.io/sys/doc/compiler.html -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org