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 14:15:58 +0000
From:   Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>,
        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 05:48:42AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>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.

I did kernel build test, but not the test suite as you mentioned.

Would you mind sharing some steps on using the test suite? And which case you
think would trigger the problem?

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Wei Yang
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