linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/23] mm: bdi init hooks

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Date:	Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:10:55 -0400
From:	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	miklos@...redi.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, neilb@...e.de,
	dgc@....com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@...achi.com, nikita@...sterfs.com,
	trond.myklebust@....uio.no, yingchao.zhou@...il.com,
	richard@....demon.co.uk, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/23] mm: bdi init hooks

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:45:36AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> provide BDI constructor/destructor hooks
...
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/block/rd.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/block/rd.c
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/block/rd.c
...
> @@ -419,7 +422,19 @@ static void __exit rd_cleanup(void)
>  static int __init rd_init(void)
>  {
>  	int i;
> -	int err = -ENOMEM;
> +	int err;
> +
> +	err = bdi_init(&rd_backing_dev_info);
> +	if (err)
> +		goto out2;
> +
> +	err = bdi_init(&rd_file_backing_dev_info);
> +	if (err) {
> +		bdi_destroy(&rd_backing_dev_info);
> +		goto out2;

How about this...

if (err)
	goto out3;

> +	}
> +
> +	err = -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	if (rd_blocksize > PAGE_SIZE || rd_blocksize < 512 ||
>  			(rd_blocksize & (rd_blocksize-1))) {
> @@ -473,6 +488,9 @@ out:
>  		put_disk(rd_disks[i]);
>  		blk_cleanup_queue(rd_queue[i]);
>  	}
> +	bdi_destroy(&rd_backing_dev_info);
> +	bdi_destroy(&rd_file_backing_dev_info);

	bdi_destroy(&rd_file_backing_dev_info);
out3:
	bdi_destroy(&rd_backing_dev_info);

Sure you might want to switch from numbered labels to something a bit more
descriptive.

> +out2:
>  	return err;
>  }
>  

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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