linux-kernel - Re: [07/36] Use page_cache_xxx in mm/filemap

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Message-ID: <20070828195503.GA15903@lst.de>
Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:55:03 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	J??rn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
Cc:	clameter@....com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>,
	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...il.com>,
	swin wang <wangswin@...il.com>, totty.lu@...il.com,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [07/36] Use page_cache_xxx in mm/filemap_xip.c

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:49:38PM +0200, J??rn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 28 August 2007 12:05:58 -0700, clameter@....com wrote:
> >  
> > -	index = *ppos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
> > -	offset = *ppos & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK;
> > +	index = page_cache_index(mapping, *ppos);
> > +	offset = page_cache_offset(mapping, *ppos);
> 
> Part of me feels inclined to marge this patch now because it makes the
> code more readable, even if page_cache_index() is implemented as
> #define page_cache_index(mapping, pos) ((pos) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT)
> 
> I know there is little use in yet another global search'n'replace
> wankfest and Andrew might wash my mouth just for mentioning it.  Still,
> hard to dislike this part of your patch.

Yes, I I suggested that before.  Andrew seems to somehow hate this
patchset, but even if we don;'t get it in the lowercase macros are much
much better then the current PAGE_CACHE_* confusion.
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