Re: [PATCH 0/2] xfs: pass mp to XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_*

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

On 2/9/15 7:09 AM, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 08:35:02AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 04:22:04PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> These 2 patches provide information about which filesystem
>>> hit the error...
>>
>> If we are going to touch every one of these macros, then can we
>> rename them to something a little shorter like XFS_CORRUPT_GOTO()
>> and XFS_CORRUPT_RETURN() at the same time? That will make the code a
>> little less eye-bleedy where there are lots of these statements,
>> and make formatting of complex checks a bit easier, too...
>>
> 
> XFS_CORRUPT_DOSOMETHING() jumps out to me as indicate corruption if the
> logic statement evaluates as true rather than false. The latter (e.g.,
> assert-like logic) is how they work today, so that could be a bit
> confusing to somebody who isn't already familiar with how these macros
> work.
> 
> Unfortunately, nothing shorter than the current naming immediately comes
> to mind... :/ We could kill the XFS_ prefix I suppose or even invert the
> logic of the calls, but that's certainly a more significant change.
> Thoughts?

Right, so today it's XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_RETURN(thing_that_should_be_true)
and I agree, that's always felt a bit odd.

Dave suggests XFS_CORRUPT_RETURN(thing_that_should_be_true)

I guess the "WANT" was supposed to imply that the argument is the
test that we "want" to be true? :)

I'm not super excited about inverting every test, but we could ...

XFS_CORRUPT_RETURN_IF_NOT(test) would be explicit, at least.
Or XFS_CORRUPT_RETURN_UNLESS(test).

I can't think of a nice short name that conveys more meaning, either,
but I'm not really sure that it's critical to change it at this point.

-Eric

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