Re: Untangle code in bio.c

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 06:59:09 EST


On Wed, Sep 15 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > bio.c uses quite ugly code with goto's, completely
> > unneccessarily. Please apply,
>
> I wouldn't describe this as an improvement, really. Multiple return
> statements give me hysterics.

Me neither...

> > --- clean-mm/fs/bio.c 2004-09-15 12:58:10.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-mm/fs/bio.c 2004-09-15 13:00:51.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
> >
> > bio = mempool_alloc(bio_pool, gfp_mask);
> > if (unlikely(!bio))
> > - goto out;
> > + return NULL;
> >
> > bio_init(bio);
> >
> > @@ -157,13 +157,11 @@
> > noiovec:
> > bio->bi_io_vec = bvl;
> > bio->bi_destructor = bio_destructor;
> > -out:
> > return bio;
> > }
> >
> > mempool_free(bio, bio_pool);
> > - bio = NULL;
> > - goto out;
> > + return NULL;
> > }
>
> How's this look?
>
> struct bio *bio_alloc(int gfp_mask, int nr_iovecs)
> {
> struct bio *bio = mempool_alloc(bio_pool, gfp_mask);
>
> if (likely(bio)) {
> struct bio_vec *bvl = NULL;
>
> bio_init(bio);
> if (likely(nr_iovecs)) {
> unsigned long idx;
>
> bvl = bvec_alloc(gfp_mask, nr_iovecs, &idx);
> if (unlikely(!bvl)) {
> mempool_free(bio, bio_pool);
> bio = NULL;
> goto out;
> }
> bio->bi_flags |= idx << BIO_POOL_OFFSET;
> }
> bio->bi_io_vec = bvl;
> bio->bi_destructor = bio_destructor;
> }
> out:
> return bio;
> }

Same semantics and it looks good to me.

--
Jens Axboe

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