On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 03:55:09PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 4/9/14, 3:48 PM, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> > On 04/09/14 14:15, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> xfs_io's pread & pwrite claim to support a random IO mode
> >> where it will do random IOs between offset & offset+len.
> >>
> >> However, offset was ignored, and we did the IOs between 0
> >> and len instead.
> >>
> >> Clang caught this by pointing out that the calculated/normalized
> >> "offset" variable was never read.
> >>
> >> (NB: If the range is larger than RAND_MAX, these functions don't
> >> work, but that's always been true, so I'll leave it for another
> >> day...)
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen<sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
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> >
> > Looks like this was introduced in:
> > commit 8fb2237e65555ff540e8b6108ffccfffefe239ac
> > Author: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri Nov 11 14:25:18 2005 +0000
> >
> > Provide further debugging options and tweaks for analysing the read/write
> > paths.
> > Merge of master-melb:xfs-cmds:24372a by kenmcd.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > If it was broken for 8.5 years, I think it could be removed.
>
> Eh, could, or we could fix it. :) I suppose this means it needs a test... :/
And document it ;)
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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