Re: [PATCH 5/7] fsdax: Dedup file range to use a compare function

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 01:09:22AM +0800, Shiyang Ruan wrote:
> With dax we cannot deal with readpage() etc. So, we create a
> funciton callback to perform the file data comparison and pass

s/funciton/function/g

> +#define MIN(a, b) (((a) < (b)) ? (a) : (b))

This should use the existing min or min_t helpers.


>  int generic_remap_file_range_prep(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
>  				  struct file *file_out, loff_t pos_out,
> -				  loff_t *len, unsigned int remap_flags)
> +				  loff_t *len, unsigned int remap_flags,
> +				  compare_range_t compare_range_fn)

Can we keep generic_remap_file_range_prep as-is, and add a new
dax_remap_file_range_prep, both sharing a low-level
__generic_remap_file_range_prep implementation?  And for that
implementation I'd also go for classic if/else instead of the function
pointer.

> +extern int vfs_dedupe_file_range_compare(struct inode *src, loff_t srcoff,
> +					 struct inode *dest, loff_t destoff,
> +					 loff_t len, bool *is_same);

no need for the extern.