diff mbox

[06/33] mm: give the 'ret' variable a better name __do_page_cache_readahead

Message ID 20180509074830.16196-7-hch@lst.de (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
Headers show

Commit Message

Christoph Hellwig May 9, 2018, 7:48 a.m. UTC
It counts the number of pages acted on, so name it nr_pages to make that
obvious.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 mm/readahead.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Comments

Matthew Wilcox May 9, 2018, 3:45 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 09:48:03AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> It counts the number of pages acted on, so name it nr_pages to make that
> obvious.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Yes!

Also, it can't return an error, so how about changing it to unsigned int?
And deleting the error check from the caller?

>  mm/readahead.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
> index 539bbb6c1fad..16d0cb1e2616 100644
> --- a/mm/readahead.c
> +++ b/mm/readahead.c
> @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
>  	unsigned long end_index;	/* The last page we want to read */
>  	LIST_HEAD(page_pool);
>  	int page_idx;
> -	int ret = 0;
> +	int nr_pages = 0;
>  	loff_t isize = i_size_read(inode);
>  	gfp_t gfp_mask = readahead_gfp_mask(mapping);
>  
> @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
>  		list_add(&page->lru, &page_pool);
>  		if (page_idx == nr_to_read - lookahead_size)
>  			SetPageReadahead(page);
> -		ret++;
> +		nr_pages++;
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -195,11 +195,11 @@ int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
>  	 * uptodate then the caller will launch readpage again, and
>  	 * will then handle the error.
>  	 */
> -	if (ret)
> -		read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, ret, gfp_mask);
> +	if (nr_pages)
> +		read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, nr_pages, gfp_mask);
>  	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&page_pool));
>  out:
> -	return ret;
> +	return nr_pages;
>  }
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.17.0
>
Christoph Hellwig May 10, 2018, 6:41 a.m. UTC | #2
On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 08:45:01AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 09:48:03AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > It counts the number of pages acted on, so name it nr_pages to make that
> > obvious.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> 
> Yes!
> 
> Also, it can't return an error, so how about changing it to unsigned int?
> And deleting the error check from the caller?

I'll take a look at that.
diff mbox

Patch

diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index 539bbb6c1fad..16d0cb1e2616 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@  int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
 	unsigned long end_index;	/* The last page we want to read */
 	LIST_HEAD(page_pool);
 	int page_idx;
-	int ret = 0;
+	int nr_pages = 0;
 	loff_t isize = i_size_read(inode);
 	gfp_t gfp_mask = readahead_gfp_mask(mapping);
 
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@  int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
 		list_add(&page->lru, &page_pool);
 		if (page_idx == nr_to_read - lookahead_size)
 			SetPageReadahead(page);
-		ret++;
+		nr_pages++;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -195,11 +195,11 @@  int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
 	 * uptodate then the caller will launch readpage again, and
 	 * will then handle the error.
 	 */
-	if (ret)
-		read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, ret, gfp_mask);
+	if (nr_pages)
+		read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, nr_pages, gfp_mask);
 	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&page_pool));
 out:
-	return ret;
+	return nr_pages;
 }
 
 /*