On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 05:43 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Simplify the confusing xfs_dir2_leaf structure. It is supposed to describe
> an XFS dir2 leaf format btree block, but due to the variable sized nature
> of almost all elements in it it can't actuall do anything close to that
> job. Remove the members that are after the first variable sized array,
> given that they could only be used for sizeof expressions that can as well
> just use the underlying types directly, and make the ents array a real
> C99 variable sized array.
>
> Also factor out the xfs_dir2_leaf_size, to make the sizing of a leaf
> entry which already was convoluted somewhat readable after using the
> longer type names in the sizeof expressions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
One comment below, otherwise looks good.
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx>
. . .
> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_leaf.h
> ===================================================================
> --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_leaf.h 2011-06-30 09:18:07.263416117 +0200
> +++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_leaf.h 2011-06-30 09:38:44.723400763 +0200
> @@ -72,10 +72,7 @@ typedef struct xfs_dir2_leaf_tail {
> */
A comment explaining the implied/variable-offset
fields is needed here.
> typedef struct xfs_dir2_leaf {
> xfs_dir2_leaf_hdr_t hdr; /* leaf header */
> - xfs_dir2_leaf_entry_t ents[1]; /* entries */
> - /* ... */
> - xfs_dir2_data_off_t bests[1]; /* best free counts */
> - xfs_dir2_leaf_tail_t tail; /* leaf tail */
> + xfs_dir2_leaf_entry_t ents[]; /* entries */
> } xfs_dir2_leaf_t;
>
> /*
>
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