Re: [PATCH v7 10/24] mm: Add readahead address space operation

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Feb 20 2020 - 10:10:50 EST


On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:00:30AM -0500, Zi Yan wrote:
> > +/* The index of the first page in this readahead block */
> > +static inline unsigned int readahead_index(struct readahead_control *rac)
> > +{
> > + return rac->_index;
> > +}
>
> rac->_index is pgoff_t, so readahead_index() should return the same type, right?
> BTW, pgoff_t is unsigned long.

Oh my goodness! Thank you for spotting that. Fortunately, it's only
currently used by tracepoints, so it wasn't causing any trouble, but
that's a nasty landmine to leave lying around. Fixed:

static inline pgoff_t readahead_index(struct readahead_control *rac)