On Tue, 1 May 2007 20:58:02 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Nate Diller wrote:
>
> > well, leave it to me to reply too quickly, sorry. i think we should
> > leave simple_prepare_write() the way it is, since it's a library
> > function itself. the other two callsites in your patch are buffers,
> > which may themselves be smaller than a page so you would need a
> > special function for just those two uses, there's no other way to
> > avoid making two calls to flush_dcache_page(). if it's tremendously
> > important to you to eliminate open coding of these, maybe make a
> > 'static int buffer_prepare_write()' or some such in fs/buffer.c
>
> All three sites zap two parts of a page. If we had a
> zero_user_page2 like this
>
> zero_user_page2(page, start1, end1, start2, end2, kmap)
>
> then all 3 sites could use the same funtion.
>
> libfs.c:
>
> zero_user_page_segments(page, 0, from, to, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, KM_USER0);
>
> buffer.c:
>
> zero_user_page_segments(page, from, block_start, to, block_end, KM_USER0)
>
> zero_user_page_segments(page, blockstart, from, to, block_end, KM_USER0)
>
yup. And perhaps zero_user_page() becomes a caller to
zero_user_page_segments() if we're sure that the compiler will dtrt.
>
> I did not look through the whole kernel but this zapping segments is
> likely frequent given the nature of the blocklayer.
>
> The 3 call sites pretty ugly on their own. I think it would be good
> to have one clearly commented version of this somewhere. Call sites
> will be much clearer since you do not have the kmap_ obfuscation nor
> the calculation of the length of each segment.
Sure.
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