On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:55:10AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:11:49PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> > -extern void FASTCALL(lock_page_slow(struct page *page));
> > +extern int FASTCALL(__lock_page_slow(struct page *page, wait_queue_t
> > *wait));
> > extern void FASTCALL(__lock_page_nosync(struct page *page));
> > extern void FASTCALL(unlock_page(struct page *page));
> >
> > /*
> > * lock_page may only be called if we have the page's inode pinned.
> > */
> > -static inline void lock_page(struct page *page)
> > +static inline int __lock_page(struct page *page, wait_queue_t *wait)
> > {
> > might_sleep();
> > if (TestSetPageLocked(page))
> > - lock_page_slow(page);
> > + return __lock_page_slow(page, wait);
> > + return 0;
> > }
> >
> > +#define lock_page(page) __lock_page(page, ¤t->__wait.wait)
> > +#define lock_page_slow(page) __lock_page_slow(page,
> > ¤t->__wait.wait)
>
> Can we please simply kill your lock_page_slow wrapper and rename the
> arguments taking __lock_page_slow to lock_page_slow? All too many
> variants of the locking functions aren't all that useful and there's
> very few users.
OK.
>
> Similarly I don't really think __lock_page is an all that useful name here.
> What about lock_page_wq? or aio_lock_page to denote it has special
I am really bad with names :( I tried using the _wq suffixes earlier and
that seemed confusing to some, but if no one else objects I'm happy to use
that. I thought aio_lock_page() might be misleading because it is
synchronous if a regular wait queue entry is passed in, but again it may not
be too bad.
What's your preference ? Does anything more intuitive come to mind ?
> meaning in aio contect? Then again because of these special sematics
> we need a bunch of really verbose kerneldoc comments for this function
> famility.
Regards
Suparna
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Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux Technology Center
IBM Software Lab, India
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