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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711232110400.12552@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:16:05 +0100 (CET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
xfs-oss <xfs@....sgi.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] Clean up open coded inode dirty checks
On Nov 23 2007 11:47, Joe Perches wrote:
>On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 19:16 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> static inline bool xfs_inode_clean(const struct xfs_inode *ip)
>> {
>> if (ip->i_itemp == NULL)
>> return true;
>> if (!(ip->i_itemp->ili_format.ilf_fields & XFS_ILOG_ALL) &&
>> ip->i_update_core == NULL)
>> return true;
>> return false;
>> }
>
>Your code changed the test.
See - the previous cryptic constructs could not even be decoded ;-)
>xfs_inode.i_update_core is an unsigned char.
>
>I believe reordering the tests to avoid a possibly
>unnecessary dereference is better.
>
> if (ip->i_update_core)
> return false;
> if (!ip->i_itemp)
> return true;
> return ip->i_itemp->ili_format.ilf_fields & XFS_ILOG_ALL;
Yeah, something like that.
Note: the function SHOULD return bool for this, to quash the
ilf_fields & XFS_ILOG_ALL into 0/1.
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