linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/9] XArray: entry in last level is not expected to be a node

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Date:   Mon, 30 Mar 2020 05:48:42 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] XArray: entry in last level is not expected to be a
 node

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:36:39PM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
> If an entry is at the last level, whose parent's shift is 0, it is not
> expected to be a node. We can just leverage the xa_is_node() check to
> break the loop instead of check shift additionally.

I know you didn't run the test suite after making this change.