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From: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_SET_PTR
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:57:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311609456.2914.24.camel@doink> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110724113543.GB26332@infradead.org>

On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 07:35 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 02:38:30PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> > > -					    (__psint_t)count), split);
> > > +		xfs_buf_associate_memory(bp,
> > > +				(xfs_caddr_t)((__psint_t)&(iclog->ic_header)+
> > > +				    (__psint_t)count), split);
> > 
> > If you just cast the address appropriately you can make this
> > look a lot nicer:
> > 
> > 		xfs_buf_associate_memory(bp,
> > 			(void *) &iclog->ic_header + count, split);
> 
> If we have to cast anyway I'd suggest casting to char * at least, as
> that is standard behaviour. I'm okay with using the gcc void pointer
> arithmetics extension when it saves us ugliness, but in this case it
> doesn't really buy us anything.

Yes, I agree.  I guess I had the "void *" addition on the brain
when I did this.  Chandra, I would like to make this small change
before I commit this.  OK with you?

> Btw, nice follow-on cleanups would be to kill off the xfs_caddr_t and
> __psint_t/__psunsigned_t types entirely.

Yes.  What do you suggest to use for a pointer-sized
type?  Just cast to (long) and rely on the usual arithmetic
conversions to do the right thing?

					-Alex


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-25 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-22  0:32 [PATCH 00/12] Remove number of macros from xfs_buf.h Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22  0:32 ` [PATCH 01/12] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_BFLAGS Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 19:37   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22  0:32 ` [PATCH 02/12] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_ZEROFLAGS Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22  0:32 ` [PATCH 03/12] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_ERROR and family Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 19:38   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22 20:49     ` Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 21:10       ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22 21:30         ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22 21:31         ` Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22  0:33 ` [PATCH 04/12] xfs: Remove macro XFS_BUF_BUSY " Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 19:38   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22  0:33 ` [PATCH 05/12] xfs: Remove macro XFS_BUF_HOLD Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 19:38   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22  0:33 ` [PATCH 06/12] xfs: Remove macro XFS_BUF_SET_START Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 19:38   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22  0:33 ` [PATCH 07/12] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_PTR Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 19:38   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22  0:33 ` [PATCH 08/12] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_SET_PTR Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 19:38   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22 20:50     ` Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-24 11:35     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-25 15:57       ` Alex Elder [this message]
2011-07-25 16:25         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-25 16:58           ` Alex Elder
2011-07-25 22:18         ` Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22  0:33 ` [PATCH 09/12] Replace the macro XFS_BUF_ISPINNED with helper xfs_buf_ispinned Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 19:38   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22 20:51     ` Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22  0:33 ` [PATCH 10/12] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_SET_TARGET Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 19:38   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22  0:34 ` [PATCH 11/12] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_TARGET Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 19:38   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22 19:46   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22  0:34 ` [PATCH 12/12] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUFTARG_NAME Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 19:49   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22 21:23     ` Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 21:26       ` Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-24 11:37     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-25 15:57       ` Alex Elder
2011-07-25 16:26         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-25 22:18         ` Chandra Seetharaman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-16  1:21 [PATCH 00/12] Remove number of macros from xfs_buf.h Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-16  1:21 ` [PATCH 08/12] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_SET_PTR Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-16 16:44   ` Christoph Hellwig

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