On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 06:55:49PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 02:04 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > plain text document attachment (xfs-bmapi-split-xfs_bmap_extent-2)
> > There is no real need to the xfs_bmap_add_extent, as the callers know what
> > kind of extents they need to it. Removing it means duplicating the
> > extents to btree conversion logic in three places, but overall it's still
> > a lot less, and much simpler code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>
> Not really a *lot* less code, but it is an improvement.
>
> Simple question below (coding style) but this looks good.
It's about 70 lines. I've toned the description down a bit for the next
version.
> > +STATIC void
> > +xfs_bmap_check_leaf_extents(
> > + struct xfs_btree_cur *cur,
> > + struct xfs_inode *ip,
> > + int whichfork);
> > +#else
> > +#define xfs_bmap_check_leaf_extents(cur, ip, whichfork) do { }
> > while (0)
> > +#endif
>
> Why do you use "do {} while (0)" rather than just an empty right
> hand side?
That way it can safely be used e.g. inside single-line conditionals
without braces. It's an idiom used quite a lot in the kernel.
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