On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 09:50:20PM -0400, Tom Talpey wrote: > On 5/30/2018 3:47 PM, Long Li wrote: > >From: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >Add a function to allocate rdata without allocating pages for data > >transfer. This gives the caller an option to pass a number of pages > >that point to the data buffer. > > > >rdata is still reponsible for free those pages after it's done. > > "Caller" is still responsible? Or is the rdata somehow freeing itself > via another mechanism? > > > > >Signed-off-by: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 2 +- > > fs/cifs/file.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--- > > 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > >diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h > >index 8d16c3e..56864a87 100644 > >+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h > >@@ -1179,7 +1179,7 @@ struct cifs_readdata { > > unsigned int tailsz; > > unsigned int credits; > > unsigned int nr_pages; > >- struct page *pages[]; > >+ struct page **pages; > > Technically speaking, these are syntactically equivalent. It may not > be worth changing this historic definition. [] is a C99 'flex array', it has a different allocation behavior than ** and is not interchangeable.. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html