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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Gargi Sharma <gs051095@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, julia.lawall@lip6.fr,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	pasha.tatashin@oracle.com, ktkhai@virtuozzo.com, oleg@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] idr: Add a function idr_get()
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 06:47:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170925134708.GA14314@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1506345607.21121.81.camel@surriel.com>

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 09:20:07AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > +++ b/lib/idr.c
> > @@ -135,6 +135,17 @@ void *idr_get_next_ext(struct idr *idr, unsigned
> > long *nextid)
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(idr_get_next_ext);
> >  
> > +void * idr_get(struct idr *idr, int *id)
> > +{
> > +	struct radix_tree_node *node;
> > +	void __rcu **slot = NULL;
> > +
> > +	__radix_tree_lookup(&idr->idr_rt, *id, &node, &slot);
> > +	if (!slot)
> > +		return NULL;
> > +	return node;
> > +}
> 
> I should have noticed this (much) earlier, but doesn't idr_get do
> essentially the same thing as idr_find?
> 
> Also, wouldn't you want to return the pid pointer from slot,
> rather than a pointer to the entire radix tree node?

It also seems rather odd to pass id by reference here just to
dereference it a little later.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-25 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-25 12:56 [PATCH 0/4] Replace PID bitmap with IDR API implementation Gargi Sharma
2017-09-25 12:56 ` [PATCH 1/4] pid: Replace pid bitmap implementation with IDR API Gargi Sharma
2017-09-25 13:09   ` Rik van Riel
2017-09-25 14:59   ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-09-25 17:41     ` Gargi Sharma
2017-09-25 15:20   ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-09-25 17:41     ` Gargi Sharma
2017-09-25 12:56 ` [PATCH 2/4] idr: Add a function idr_get() Gargi Sharma
2017-09-25 13:20   ` Rik van Riel
2017-09-25 13:47     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-09-25 14:12   ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-09-25 17:43     ` Gargi Sharma
2017-09-25 12:56 ` [PATCH 3/4] pid.c: Replace pidhash lookup with idr_get() Gargi Sharma
2017-09-25 13:20   ` Rik van Riel
2017-09-25 17:44     ` Gargi Sharma
2017-09-25 19:30       ` Rik van Riel
2017-09-25 12:56 ` [PATCH 4/4] pid: Remove pidhash Gargi Sharma
2017-09-25 13:48   ` Rik van Riel

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