Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hannes Frederic Sowa [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 3:14 PM
> To: Chris Mi <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [patch net-next 1/3] idr: Add new APIs to support unsigned long
>
> Hello,
>
> Chris Mi <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > The following new APIs are added:
> >
> > int idr_alloc_ext(struct idr *idr, void *ptr, unsigned long *index,
> > unsigned long start, unsigned long end, gfp_t gfp);
> > static inline void *idr_remove_ext(struct idr *idr, unsigned long id);
> > static inline void *idr_find_ext(const struct idr *idr, unsigned long
> > id); void *idr_replace_ext(struct idr *idr, void *ptr, unsigned long
> > id); void *idr_get_next_ext(struct idr *idr, unsigned long *nextid);
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Mi <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > include/linux/idr.h | 16 ++++++++++
> > include/linux/radix-tree.h | 3 ++
> > lib/idr.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > lib/radix-tree.c | 73
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 4 files changed, 148 insertions(+)
> >
>
> [...]
>
> > +int idr_alloc_ext(struct idr *idr, void *ptr, unsigned long *index,
> > + unsigned long start, unsigned long end, gfp_t gfp) {
> > + void __rcu **slot;
> > + struct radix_tree_iter iter;
> > +
> > + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(radix_tree_is_internal_node(ptr)))
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > + radix_tree_iter_init(&iter, start);
> > + slot = idr_get_free_ext(&idr->idr_rt, &iter, gfp, end);
> > + if (IS_ERR(slot))
> > + return PTR_ERR(slot);
> > +
> > + radix_tree_iter_replace(&idr->idr_rt, &iter, slot, ptr);
> > + radix_tree_iter_tag_clear(&idr->idr_rt, &iter, IDR_FREE);
> > +
> > + if (index)
> > + *index = iter.index;
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(idr_alloc_ext);
>
> Can you express idr_alloc in terms of idr_alloc_ext? Same for most of the
> other functions (it seems that signed int was used as return value to indicate
> error cases, thus it should be easy to map those).
In idr_alloc(), we have the following check:
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(start < 0))
return -EINVAL;
But in idr_alloc_ext(), since we are using unsigned long, we needn't such check.
In order to reuse several lines of code, I think it is not worth to express
idr_alloc()
In terms of idr_alloc_ext.
Thanks,
Chris
>
> [...]
>
> Thanks,
> Hannes
