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    SubjectRe: [07/36] Use page_cache_xxx in mm/filemap_xip.c
    Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:49:38PM +0200, J??rn Engel wrote:
    >
    >>On Tue, 28 August 2007 12:05:58 -0700, clameter@sgi.com wrote:
    >>
    >>>
    >>>- index = *ppos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
    >>>- offset = *ppos & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK;
    >>>+ index = page_cache_index(mapping, *ppos);
    >>>+ offset = page_cache_offset(mapping, *ppos);
    >>
    >>Part of me feels inclined to marge this patch now because it makes the
    >>code more readable, even if page_cache_index() is implemented as
    >>#define page_cache_index(mapping, pos) ((pos) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT)
    >>
    >>I know there is little use in yet another global search'n'replace
    >>wankfest and Andrew might wash my mouth just for mentioning it. Still,
    >>hard to dislike this part of your patch.
    >
    >
    > Yes, I I suggested that before. Andrew seems to somehow hate this
    > patchset, but even if we don;'t get it in the lowercase macros are much
    > much better then the current PAGE_CACHE_* confusion.

    I don't mind the change either. The open coded macros are very
    recognisable, but it isn't hard to have a typo and get one
    slightly wrong.

    If it goes upstream now it wouldn't have the mapping argument
    though, would it? Or the need to replace PAGE_CACHE_SIZE I guess.

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