On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 05:43 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > In most places we can simply pass around and use the struct xfs_dir2_data_hdr, > which is the first and most important member of struct xfs_dir2_data instead > of the full structure. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> In xfs_dir2_data_freescan() you get the address of the dir2_data_t by forcibly casting the address of the header to that type. We all know that's fine, but it's an unsavory practice. Why don't you pass the full dir2_data_t in that case where it's needed? Are you simply trying to avoid passing *any* pointers to variable-sized types? I'm not worried about this, but just wondered what you thought about this. (Update: I think you eliminate that line in the next patch anyway...) In any case: Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx> . . . } > Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_data.c > =================================================================== > --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_data.c 2011-06-30 09:38:36.586734196 +0200 > +++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_data.c 2011-06-30 09:38:40.133400821 +0200 . . . > @@ -325,9 +333,10 @@ xfs_dir2_data_freeremove( > void > xfs_dir2_data_freescan( > xfs_mount_t *mp, /* filesystem mount point */ > - xfs_dir2_data_t *d, /* data block pointer */ > + xfs_dir2_data_hdr_t *hdr, /* data block header */ > int *loghead) /* out: log data header */ > { > + xfs_dir2_data_t *d = (xfs_dir2_data_t *)hdr; > xfs_dir2_block_tail_t *btp; /* block tail */ > xfs_dir2_data_entry_t *dep; /* active data entry */ > xfs_dir2_data_unused_t *dup; /* unused data entry */ . . . _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs