On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 09:07:07AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> I've started using 'next', or changing the code to make 'end' be the
> last element in the range the caller wants to act upon. The thing is,
> those are all iterators, so 'next' fits, whereas it doesn't fit so well
> for range zeroing where that might have been all the zeroing we wanted
> to do.
Yeah, it doesn't really work so well for one of the patches in this
series:
if (buffer_new(bh)) {
...
folio_zero_segments(folio,
to, block_end,
block_start, from);
("zero between block_start and block_end, except for the region
specified by 'from' and 'to'"). Except that for some reason the
ranges are specified backwards, so it's not obvious what's going on.
Converting that to folio_zero_ranges() would be a possibility, at the
expense of complexity in the caller, or using 'max' instead of 'end'
would also add complexity to the callers.
> Though. 'xend' (shorthand for 'excluded end') is different enough to
> signal that the reader should pay attention. Ok, how about xend then?
Done!
@@ -367,26 +367,26 @@ static inline void memzero_page(struct page *page, size_t
offset, size_t len)
* folio_zero_segments() - Zero two byte ranges in a folio.
* @folio: The folio to write to.
* @start1: The first byte to zero.
- * @end1: One more than the last byte in the first range.
+ * @xend1: One more than the last byte in the first range.
* @start2: The first byte to zero in the second range.
- * @end2: One more than the last byte in the second range.
+ * @xend2: One more than the last byte in the second range.
*/
static inline void folio_zero_segments(struct folio *folio,
- size_t start1, size_t end1, size_t start2, size_t end2)
+ size_t start1, size_t xend1, size_t start2, size_t xend2)
{
- zero_user_segments(&folio->page, start1, end1, start2, end2);
+ zero_user_segments(&folio->page, start1, xend1, start2, xend2);
}
/**
* folio_zero_segment() - Zero a byte range in a folio.
* @folio: The folio to write to.
* @start: The first byte to zero.
- * @end: One more than the last byte in the first range.
+ * @xend: One more than the last byte to zero.
*/
static inline void folio_zero_segment(struct folio *folio,
- size_t start, size_t end)
+ size_t start, size_t xend)
{
- zero_user_segments(&folio->page, start, end, 0, 0);
+ zero_user_segments(&folio->page, start, xend, 0, 0);
}
/**
