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From: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] loop cleanup in fs/namespace.c
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:59:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47391300.7070604@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi Alexander,

Although the following non-idiomatic and quite cumbersome C language construct

label:
	if (condition) {
		// DO HARD WORK
		goto label;
	}

is equivalent to a simple while loop

while (condition) {
	// DO HARD WORK
}

it was the "label-if-goto label" approach chosen to implement the loop in the mntput_no_expire() routine located in `fs/namespace.c'.

The patch enclosed to this message changes the goto-based loop to a while-based one, not only saving us two lines of code, but also making the implementation idiomatic and thus more readable.

Thanks,

Dmitri

Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>

--
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 0608388..6a0cee1 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -278,8 +278,7 @@ static inline void __mntput(struct vfsmo
 
 void mntput_no_expire(struct vfsmount *mnt)
 {
-repeat:
-	if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&mnt->mnt_count, &vfsmount_lock)) {
+	while (atomic_dec_and_lock(&mnt->mnt_count, &vfsmount_lock)) {
 		if (likely(!mnt->mnt_pinned)) {
 			spin_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
 			__mntput(mnt);
@@ -290,7 +289,6 @@ repeat:
 		spin_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
 		acct_auto_close_mnt(mnt);
 		security_sb_umount_close(mnt);
-		goto repeat;
 	}
 }
 

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