From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>,
Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] xfs: don't bother returning errors from xfs_file_release
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 07:59:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240807145918.GD6051@frogsfrogsfrogs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240624155124.GB14874@lst.de>
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 05:51:24PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 08:39:51AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > +/*
> > > + * Don't bother propagating errors. We're just doing cleanup, and the caller
> > > + * ignores the return value anyway.
> >
> > Shouldn't we drop the int return from the function declaration, then?
> >
> > (Is that also a cleanup that's you're working on?)
>
> We can't drop it without changing the f_ops->release signature and
> updates to the many instance of it. That would still be worthwhile
> project, but it's something for someone who is better at scripting
> than me.
Yeahhhhh... at this point it's a giant treewide change that just doesn't
seem worth it. Maybe save it for someone who wants to make a subtle but
important behavior change and needs a type signature change to stand in
as an idiot light for out of tree modules. :P
Anyway I think this is fine, let's merge this series
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
--D
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-07 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-23 5:34 post-EOF block handling revamp Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-23 5:34 ` [PATCH 01/10] xfs: fix freeing speculative preallocations for preallocated files Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-24 15:30 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-23 5:34 ` [PATCH 02/10] xfs: remove the i_mode check in xfs_release Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-24 15:34 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-24 15:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-07 15:01 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-23 5:34 ` [PATCH 03/10] xfs: refactor f_op->release handling Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-24 15:35 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-23 5:34 ` [PATCH 04/10] xfs: don't bother returning errors from xfs_file_release Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-24 15:39 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-24 15:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-07 14:59 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2024-06-23 5:34 ` [PATCH 05/10] xfs: skip all of xfs_file_release when shut down Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-24 15:41 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-23 5:34 ` [PATCH 06/10] xfs: don't free post-EOF blocks on read close Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-24 15:43 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-23 5:34 ` [PATCH 07/10] xfs: only free posteof blocks on first close Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-24 15:46 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-24 16:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-24 16:49 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-23 5:34 ` [PATCH 08/10] xfs: check XFS_IDIRTY_RELEASE earlier in xfs_release_eofblocks Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-24 15:50 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-24 15:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-23 5:34 ` [PATCH 09/10] xfs: simplify extent lookup in xfs_can_free_eofblocks Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-24 15:51 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-23 5:34 ` [PATCH 10/10] xfs: reclaim speculative preallocations for append only files Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-24 15:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-24 16:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-24 17:06 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-06-24 17:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-06-24 18:44 ` Darrick J. Wong
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