[PATCH 6/3] xfs: make largest supported offset less shouty
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
Sun Apr 29 20:11:24 CDT 2012
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 05:58:30PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:57:29PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> >
> > XFS_MAXIOFFSET() is just a simple macro that resolves to
> > mp->m_maxioffset. It doesn't need to exist, and it just makes the
> > code unnecessarily loud and shouty.
> >
> > Make it quiet and easy to read.
>
> Do we actually need to keep around a value in our superblock?
> s_maxbytes in the VFS superblock already does this, and it seems like
> at least our checks in the read path are superflous.
Ah, we do indeed keep the same value in s_maxbytes - that's one step
removed from m_maxioffset because it uses the same function to
calculate it, and they are done a long way apart. Ok, it looks like
I've got a couple more patches to write to finish off this cleanup.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
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