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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Cc: hch@lst.de, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, sagi@grimberg.me
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] nvmet: add helper to revalidate bdev and file ns
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 09:11:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200506071118.GA12145@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200506014629.39509-2-chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>

On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 06:46:27PM -0700, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> -int nvmet_file_ns_revalidate(struct nvmet_ns *ns)
> +bool nvmet_file_ns_revalidate(struct nvmet_ns *ns, int *retp)
>  {
> +	loff_t oldsize = ns->size;
>  	struct kstat stat;
>  	int ret;
>  
> @@ -22,7 +23,11 @@ int nvmet_file_ns_revalidate(struct nvmet_ns *ns)
>  			  AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC);
>  	if (!ret)
>  		ns->size = stat.size;
> -	return ret;
> +
> +	if (retp)
> +		*retp = ret;
> +
> +	return oldsize != ns->size ? true : false;

I find the calling convention really weird.  I'd always return the
error over the bool, as a bool *size_changed is a lot more descriptive.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-06  7:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-06  1:46 [PATCH 0/3] nvmet: add target ns revalidate support Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-05-06  1:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] nvmet: add helper to revalidate bdev and file ns Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-05-06  7:11   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-05-06 23:41     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-05-06  1:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] nvmet: on ns size change generate AEN from configfs Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-05-06  7:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-06 23:42     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-05-06  1:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] nvmet: add async event tracing support Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-05-06  7:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-06 23:43     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni

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