Re: [PATCH] staging : lustre : Remove braces from single-line body.

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Dec 16 2016 - 11:06:11 EST


On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 19:59 +0530, Tabrez khan wrote:
> Remove unnecessary braces {} for single while statement.

Your patch is fine Tabrez, but to the lustre folk:

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/cl_io.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/cl_io.c
[]
> @@ -1371,9 +1371,9 @@ int cl_sync_io_wait(const struct lu_env *env, struct cl_sync_io *anchor,
LASSERT(atomic_read(&anchor->csi_sync_nr) == 0);

/* wait until cl_sync_io_note() has done wakeup */
- while (unlikely(atomic_read(&anchor->csi_barrier) != 0)) {
+ while (unlikely(atomic_read(&anchor->csi_barrier) != 0))
cpu_relax();
- }
+

What if the wakeup never occurs/succeeds?
Should there be a timeout?