Re: [PATCH] dax: Fix Xarray conversion of dax_unlock_mapping_entry()

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On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 8:24 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 07:54:49AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Looks good to me, although can we make that cookie an actual type? I
> > think it's mostly ok to pass around (void *) for 'entry' inside of
> > fs/dax.c, but once an entry leaves that file I'd like it to have an
> > explicit type to catch people that might accidentally pass a (struct
> > page *) to the unlock routine.
>
> That's a really good idea.  Something like this?
>
> typedef struct {
>         void *v;
> } dax_entry_t;

Yes, please.

> I could see us making good use of that within dax.c.



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