Re: [PATCH v4][next] xfs: Replace one-element arrays with flexible-array members
From: Chen, Rong A <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-14 09:28:04
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On 4/14/2021 12:53 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 08:48:08AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:quoted
A couple of revisions ago I specifically asked Gustavo to create these 'silly' sizeof helpers to clean up...quoted
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- (sizeof(struct xfs_efd_log_item) + - (XFS_EFD_MAX_FAST_EXTENTS - 1) * - sizeof(struct xfs_extent)), - 0, 0, NULL); + struct_size((struct xfs_efd_log_item *)0, + efd_format.efd_extents, + XFS_EFD_MAX_FAST_EXTENTS),...these even uglier multiline statements. I was also going to ask for these kmem cache users to get cleaned up. I'd much rather look at: xfs_efi_zone = kmem_cache_create("xfs_efi_item", sizeof_xfs_efi(XFS_EFI_MAX_FAST_EXTENTS), 0); if (!xfs_efi_zone) goto the_drop_zone; even if it means another static inline.Which doesn't really work with struct_size or rather leads to a mess like the above as struct_size really wants a variable and not just a type. Making it really nasty for both allocations and creating slab caches. I tried to find a workaround for that, but that makes the compiler unhappy based its inlining heuristics. Anyway, a lot of the helpers are pretty silly as they duplicate stuff without cleaning up the underlying mess. I tried to sort much of this out here, still WIP: http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/xfs.git/shortlog/refs/heads/xfs-array-size
Hi xfs maintainers, Kindly ping, is there any new progress on this patch series? Best Regards, Rong Chen