From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f197.google.com (mail-pf0-f197.google.com [209.85.192.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35676B052C for ; Wed, 9 May 2018 11:45:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pf0-f197.google.com with SMTP id y12so18198354pfe.8 for ; Wed, 09 May 2018 08:45:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org. [2607:7c80:54:e::133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v5-v6si14598678pgq.227.2018.05.09.08.45.04 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Wed, 09 May 2018 08:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 08:45:01 -0700 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/33] mm: give the 'ret' variable a better name __do_page_cache_readahead Message-ID: <20180509154501.GD1313@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20180509074830.16196-1-hch@lst.de> <20180509074830.16196-7-hch@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180509074830.16196-7-hch@lst.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 09:48:03AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > It counts the number of pages acted on, so name it nr_pages to make that > obvious. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Yes! Also, it can't return an error, so how about changing it to unsigned int? And deleting the error check from the caller? > mm/readahead.c | 10 +++++----- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c > index 539bbb6c1fad..16d0cb1e2616 100644 > --- a/mm/readahead.c > +++ b/mm/readahead.c > @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, > unsigned long end_index; /* The last page we want to read */ > LIST_HEAD(page_pool); > int page_idx; > - int ret = 0; > + int nr_pages = 0; > loff_t isize = i_size_read(inode); > gfp_t gfp_mask = readahead_gfp_mask(mapping); > > @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, > list_add(&page->lru, &page_pool); > if (page_idx == nr_to_read - lookahead_size) > SetPageReadahead(page); > - ret++; > + nr_pages++; > } > > /* > @@ -195,11 +195,11 @@ int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, > * uptodate then the caller will launch readpage again, and > * will then handle the error. > */ > - if (ret) > - read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, ret, gfp_mask); > + if (nr_pages) > + read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, nr_pages, gfp_mask); > BUG_ON(!list_empty(&page_pool)); > out: > - return ret; > + return nr_pages; > } > > /* > -- > 2.17.0 >