On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 09:30:30PM -0800, Deepa Dinamani wrote: > - int (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec64 *, int); > + int (*cb)(struct inode *, struct timespec64 *, int); > > - update_time = inode->i_op->update_time ? inode->i_op->update_time : > + cb = inode->i_op->update_time ? inode->i_op->update_time : > generic_update_time; > > - return update_time(inode, time, flags); > + return cb(inode, time, flags); Just killing the pointless local variable cleans the function op, and also avoids the expensive indirect call for the common case: if (inode->i_op->update_time) return inode->i_op->update_time(inode, time, flags); return generic_update_time(inode, time, flags);