linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] fs/buffer.c: make some functions non-static

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Date:   Sat, 13 Jan 2018 10:55:11 +0530
From:   Chandan Rajendra <chandan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] fs/buffer.c: make some functions non-static

On Friday, January 12, 2018 8:08:23 PM IST Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 07:41:23PM +0530, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> > @@ -1642,12 +1642,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(clean_bdev_aliases);
> >   * constraints in mind (relevant mostly if some
> >   * architecture has a slow bit-scan instruction)
> >   */
> > -static inline int block_size_bits(unsigned int blocksize)
> > +int block_size_bits(unsigned int blocksize)
> >  {
> >  	return ilog2(blocksize);
> >  }
> 
> Could you move this to buffer.h instead please?
> 
> 

It just occured to me that I could use inode->i_blkbits instead of
block_size_bits() inside the new function ext4_block_read_full_page().
Hence I will drop the above change from the next version of the patchset.

Thanks for the review.

-- 
chandan