Re: [nameidata 1/2] Don't pass NULL nameidata to vfs_create

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:11:30PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> +static inline int
> +nfsd_do_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *child, struct vfsmount *mnt,
> +	       int mode)
> +{
> +	struct nameidata nd = {
> +		.dentry = child,
> +		.mnt = mnt,
> +	};
> +
> +	return vfs_create(dir, child, mode, &nd);
> +}
> +

Wouldn't it normally result in fewer instructions (on most architectures
... maybe not x86) to keep the same argument order as vfs_create?  ie:

static inline int nfsd_do_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *child,
				 int mode, struct vfsmount *mnt)

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