[Devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] SUNRPC: traverse clients tree on PipeFS event

[Stanislav Kinsbursky]

26.04.2012 22:11, Myklebust, Trond написал:
> On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 18:19 +0400, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote:
>
>> +static int __rpc_pipefs_event(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, unsigned long event,
>> +				struct super_block *sb)
>> +{
>> +	int error;
>> +
>> +	if (!rpc_clnt_skip_event(clnt, event)) {
>> +		error = __rpc_clnt_handle_event(clnt, event, sb);
>> +		if (error)
>> +			return error;
>> +	}
>> +	if (clnt != clnt->cl_parent)
>> +		return __rpc_pipefs_event(clnt->cl_parent, event, sb);
>> +	return 0;
>> +}
> Hi Stanislav,
>
> Recursion in the kernel is generally frowned upon due to the stack size
> limits. Could you please rewrite the above into a simple loop. Something
> along the lines of:
>
> 	for(;;) {
> 		...
>
> 		if (clnt == clnt->cl_parent)
> 			break;
> 		clnt = clnt->cl_parent;
> 	}
>

Hi, Trond.
Yes, sure, I can do this.