linux-kernel - RE: [patch] aio: make aio_ring_info->nr

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Message-ID: <000e01c72ed5$bcbb9430$ff0da8c0@amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:23:13 -0800
From:	"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@...el.com>
To:	"'Zach Brown'" <zach.brown@...cle.com>
Cc:	"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...l.org>, <linux-aio@...ck.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"'Benjamin LaHaise'" <bcrl@...ck.org>, <suparna@...ibm.com>
Subject: RE: [patch] aio: make aio_ring_info->nr_pages an unsigned int

Zach Brown wrote on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:14 PM
> To: Chen, Kenneth W
> > --- ./include/linux/aio.h.orig	2006-12-24 22:31:55.000000000 -0800
> > +++ ./include/linux/aio.h	2006-12-24 22:41:28.000000000 -0800
> > @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ struct aio_ring_info {
> >
> >  	struct page		**ring_pages;
> >  	spinlock_t		ring_lock;
> > -	long			nr_pages;
> > +	unsigned		nr_pages;
> >
> >  	unsigned		nr, tail;
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> This seems so trivial as to not be worth it.  It'd be more compelling  
> if it was more thorough -- doing things like updating the 'long i'  
> iterators that a feww have over ->nr_pages.  That kind of thing.   
> Giving some confidence that the references of ->nr_pages were audited.


I had that changes earlier, but dropped it to make the patch smaller. It
all started with head and tail index, which is defined as unsigned int in
structure, but in aio.c, all local variables that does temporary head and
tail calculation are unsigned long. While cleaning that, it got expanded
into nr_pages etc.  Oh well.

- Ken

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