[PATCH v8 25/25] iomap: Convert from readpages to readahead

[Darrick J. Wong]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 09:07:28AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 09:04:25AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > @@ -456,15 +435,8 @@ iomap_readpages(struct address_space *mapping, struct list_head *pages,
> > >  			unlock_page(ctx.cur_page);
> > >  		put_page(ctx.cur_page);
> > >  	}
> > > -
> > > -	/*
> > > -	 * Check that we didn't lose a page due to the arcance calling
> > > -	 * conventions..
> > > -	 */
> > > -	WARN_ON_ONCE(!ret && !list_empty(ctx.pages));
> > > -	return ret;
> > 
> > After all the discussion about "if we still have ctx.cur_page we should
> > just stop" in v7, I'm surprised that this patch now doesn't say much of
> > anything, not even a WARN_ON()?
> 
> The code quoted above puts the cur_page reference.  By dropping the
> odd refactoring patch there is no need to check for cur_page being
> left as a special condition as that still is the normal loop exit
> state and properly handled, just as in the original iomap code.

DOH.  Yes, yes it does.  Thanks for pointing that out. :)

/me hands himself another cup of coffee,
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong at oracle.com>

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