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From: Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
	cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, oleg@redhat.com,
	jiri@resnulli.us, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] list: introduce list_last_entry_or_null()
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:29:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5285A33C.4040808@oracle.com> (raw)

Hi Folks,

This patch is trying to introduce a new list helper to retrieve the
last entry or return NULL if the list is empty corresponding to it,
which is inspired by Jiri Pirko's list_first_entry_or_null().

With this trivial helper, we could get a little benefit to simplify
the code logic of xfs_ail_max() and make the code looks a bit more
consistent with xfs_ail_min() which has already been simplified
via list_first_entry_or_null().

Moreover, as a per simple grep against fs as well as driver's tree,
I think there are some other places could make use of it for similar
purpose, here I spread this helper over some file systems as well.

Any comments are welcome!

Thanks,
-Jeff

             reply	other threads:[~2013-11-15  4:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-15  4:29 Jeff Liu [this message]
2013-11-15 14:11 ` [PATCH 0/6] list: introduce list_last_entry_or_null() Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-15 14:26   ` [Cluster-devel] " Steven Whitehouse
2013-11-15 16:00   ` Jeff Liu

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