On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 10:01:55AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 07:58:15PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

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        spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->pages, flags);
        __delete_from_page_cache(page, NULL);
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->pages, flags);

More details here: https://9p.io/sys/doc/compiler.html

I read the link, and I understand (from section 3.3) that replacing
foo.bar.baz.goo with foo.goo is less typing, but otoh the first time I
read your example above I thought "we're passing (an array of pages |
something that doesn't have the word 'lock' in the name) to
spin_lock_irqsave? wtf?"

I can see that being a bit jarring initially.  If you think about what
object-oriented languages were offering in the nineties, this is basically
C++ multiple-inheritance / Java interfaces.  So when I read the above
example, I think "lock the mapping pages, delete from page cache, unlock
the mapping pages", and I don't have a wtf moment.  It's just simpler to
read than "lock the mapping pages lock", and less redundant.

I suppose it does force me to go dig into whatever mapping->pages is to
figure out that there's an unnamed spinlock_t and that the compiler can
insert the appropriate pointer arithmetic, but now my brain trips over
'pages' being at the end of the selector for parameter 1 which slows
down my review reading...

OTOH I guess it /did/ motivate me to click the link, so well played,
sir. :)

Now if only I can trick you into giving your ACK on patch 1,
"xfs: Rename xa_ elements to ail_"
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