Re: [PATCH] btrfs: list usage cleanup

Omar Sandoval
2018-09-27T18:47:09Z

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 04:35:45PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
> Trival cleanup, list_move_tail will implement the same function that
> list_del() + list_add_tail() will do. hence just replace them.
>
> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
> ---
> fs/btrfs/send.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/send.c b/fs/btrfs/send.c
> index 094cc144..d87f416 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/send.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/send.c
> @@ -2075,8 +2075,7 @@ static struct name_cache_entry *name_cache_search(struct send_ctx *sctx,
> */
> static void name_cache_used(struct send_ctx *sctx, struct name_cache_entry *nce)
> {
> - list_del(&nce->list);
> - list_add_tail(&nce->list, &sctx->name_cache_list);
> + list_move_tail(&nce->list, &sctx->name_cache_list);
> }

At that point do we even need such a trivial helper, considering that
this is only called in one place?