Re: [PATCH 2/6] io context sharing: preliminary support

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jan 23 2008 - 17:09:39 EST


> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:49:17 +0100 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -void put_io_context(struct io_context *ioc)
> +int put_io_context(struct io_context *ioc)
> {
> if (ioc == NULL)
> - return;
> + return 1;
>
> BUG_ON(atomic_read(&ioc->refcount) == 0);
>
> @@ -3856,7 +3856,9 @@ void put_io_context(struct io_context *ioc)
> rcu_read_unlock();
>
> kmem_cache_free(iocontext_cachep, ioc);
> + return 1;
> }
> + return 0;
> }

Document the return value? (and the function)

I assume this return value gets used in some other patch.
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