On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 09:48:03AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> It counts the number of pages acted on, so name it nr_pages to make that
> obvious.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>

Yes!

Also, it can't return an error, so how about changing it to unsigned int?
And deleting the error check from the caller?

>  mm/readahead.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
> index 539bbb6c1fad..16d0cb1e2616 100644
> --- a/mm/readahead.c
> +++ b/mm/readahead.c
> @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space 
> *mapping, struct file *filp,
>       unsigned long end_index;        /* The last page we want to read */
>       LIST_HEAD(page_pool);
>       int page_idx;
> -     int ret = 0;
> +     int nr_pages = 0;
>       loff_t isize = i_size_read(inode);
>       gfp_t gfp_mask = readahead_gfp_mask(mapping);
>  
> @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space 
> *mapping, struct file *filp,
>               list_add(&page->lru, &page_pool);
>               if (page_idx == nr_to_read - lookahead_size)
>                       SetPageReadahead(page);
> -             ret++;
> +             nr_pages++;
>       }
>  
>       /*
> @@ -195,11 +195,11 @@ int __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space 
> *mapping, struct file *filp,
>        * uptodate then the caller will launch readpage again, and
>        * will then handle the error.
>        */
> -     if (ret)
> -             read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, ret, gfp_mask);
> +     if (nr_pages)
> +             read_pages(mapping, filp, &page_pool, nr_pages, gfp_mask);
>       BUG_ON(!list_empty(&page_pool));
>  out:
> -     return ret;
> +     return nr_pages;
>  }
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.17.0
> 

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