Re: [PATCH 1/8] mm: drop actor argument of do_generic_file_read()

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Jul 16 2013 - 19:10:39 EST


Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:47:47PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > There's only one caller of do_generic_file_read() and the only actor is
> > file_read_actor(). No reason to have a callback parameter.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Would it make sense to do the same thing to do_shmem_file_read()?
>
> From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> There's only one caller of do_shmem_file_read() and the only actor is
> file_read_actor(). No reason to have a callback parameter.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

v3.11-rc1 brings one more user for read_actor_t -- lustre. But it seemes
it's artifact of ages when f_op had ->sendfile and it's not in use
anymore.

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Kirill A. Shutemov
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