On 2021/7/5 11:43, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 11:29:44AM +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote: >> I've thought about it, and that "if" statement can be removed as follows: > > I think this really misses Christoph's point. He's looking for > something more like this: Yes, I know that. I need to get rid of the "if" judgment first, and then I can modify iomap_seek_data() according to Christoph's point. Otherwise there are too many conversions from "length" to "size - offset" and the code doesn't look clear. > > @@ -83,27 +83,23 @@ loff_t > iomap_seek_data(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, const struct iomap_ops *ops) > { > loff_t size = i_size_read(inode); > - loff_t length = size - offset; > loff_t ret; > > /* Nothing to be found before or beyond the end of the file. */ > if (offset < 0 || offset >= size) > return -ENXIO; > > - while (length > 0) { > + while (offset < size) { > ret = iomap_apply(inode, offset, length, IOMAP_REPORT, ops, > &offset, iomap_seek_data_actor); > if (ret < 0) > return ret; > if (ret == 0) > - break; > + return offset; > > offset += ret; > - length -= ret; > } > > - if (length <= 0) > - return -ENXIO; > - return offset; > + return -ENXIO; > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iomap_seek_data); > > (not even slightly tested) > > . >