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mm: rename various 'offset' parameters to 'index'

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The word 'offset' is used ambiguously to mean 'byte offset within a
page', 'byte offset from the start of the file' and 'page offset from
the start of the file'.

Use 'index' to mean 'page offset from the start of the file' throughout
the readahead code.

[ We should probably rename the 'pgoff_t' type to 'pgidx_t' too - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414150233.24495-8-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 2020-06-01 21:46:29 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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