From: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, cem@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 19/23] mdrestore: Replace metadump header pointer argument with a union pointer
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2023 18:47:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leetr366.fsf@debian-BULLSEYE-live-builder-AMD64> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230802000146.GE11336@frogsfrogsfrogs>
On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 05:01:46 PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 10:05:23AM +0530, Chandan Babu R wrote:
>> We will need two variants of read_header(), show_info() and restore() helper
>> functions to support two versions of metadump formats. To this end, A future
>> commit will introduce a vector of function pointers to work with the two
>> metadump formats. To have a common function signature for the function
>> pointers, this commit replaces the first argument of the previously listed
>> function pointers from "struct xfs_metablock *" with "union
>> mdrestore_headers *".
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
>
> The overall code changes look fine to me, but I'm a little mystified why
> the *previous* patch introduces union mdrestore_headers and the
> mdrestore ops without using either of them.
>
> IOWs, I think you could delete patch 18, move the union definition into
> this patch, and move the mdrestore ops definitions that used to be in
> patch 18 into patch 20.
>
You are right. I will make the changes suggested above.
--
chandan
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-24 4:35 [PATCH V3 00/23] Metadump v2 Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 01/23] metadump: Use boolean values true/false instead of 1/0 Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 02/23] mdrestore: Fix logic used to check if target device is large enough Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 03/23] metadump: Declare boolean variables with bool type Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 04/23] metadump: Define and use struct metadump Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 05/23] metadump: Add initialization and release functions Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 06/23] metadump: Postpone invocation of init_metadump() Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 07/23] metadump: Introduce struct metadump_ops Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 08/23] metadump: Introduce metadump v1 operations Chandan Babu R
2023-08-01 23:44 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 09/23] metadump: Rename XFS_MD_MAGIC to XFS_MD_MAGIC_V1 Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 10/23] metadump: Define metadump v2 ondisk format structures and macros Chandan Babu R
2023-08-01 23:47 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-08-02 13:08 ` Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 11/23] metadump: Define metadump ops for v2 format Chandan Babu R
2023-08-01 23:49 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-08-02 13:08 ` Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 12/23] xfs_db: Add support to read from external log device Chandan Babu R
2023-08-01 23:49 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 13/23] metadump: Add support for passing version option Chandan Babu R
2023-08-01 23:51 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-08-02 13:18 ` Chandan Babu R
2023-08-02 17:14 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 14/23] mdrestore: Declare boolean variables with bool type Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 15/23] mdrestore: Define and use struct mdrestore Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 16/23] mdrestore: Detect metadump v1 magic before reading the header Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 17/23] mdrestore: Add open_device(), read_header() and show_info() functions Chandan Babu R
2023-08-01 23:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 18/23] mdrestore: Introduce struct mdrestore_ops Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 19/23] mdrestore: Replace metadump header pointer argument with a union pointer Chandan Babu R
2023-08-02 0:01 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-08-02 13:17 ` Chandan Babu R [this message]
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 20/23] mdrestore: Introduce mdrestore v1 operations Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 21/23] mdrestore: Extract target device size verification into a function Chandan Babu R
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 22/23] mdrestore: Define mdrestore ops for v2 format Chandan Babu R
2023-08-02 17:16 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-07-24 4:35 ` [PATCH V3 23/23] mdrestore: Add support for passing log device as an argument Chandan Babu R
2023-10-31 16:46 ` [PATCH V3 00/23] Metadump v2 Darrick J. Wong
2023-11-01 14:58 ` Carlos Maiolino
2023-11-01 18:02 ` Darrick J. Wong
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