linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] iomap: Change calling convention for zeroing

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Message-ID: <20200917221858.GH7964@magnolia>
Date:   Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:18:58 -0700
From:   "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...nel.org>,
        jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] iomap: Change calling convention for zeroing

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:11:15PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 03:05:00PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > -static loff_t
> > > -iomap_zero_range_actor(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, loff_t count,
> > > -		void *data, struct iomap *iomap, struct iomap *srcmap)
> > > +static loff_t iomap_zero_range_actor(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos,
> > > +		loff_t length, void *data, struct iomap *iomap,
> > 
> > Any reason not to change @length and the return value to s64?
> 
> Because it's an actor, passed to iomap_apply, so its types have to match.
> I can change that, but it'll be a separate patch series.

Ah, right.  I seemingly forgot that. :(

Carry on.
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

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