staging: android: logger: clarify code in clock_interval
authorTim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Wed, 8 Feb 2012 02:32:02 +0000 (18:32 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:52:44 +0000 (16:52 -0800)
Add commentary, rename the function and make the code easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/android/logger.c

index 6dd6f0490c3ae299e847c7c638c037e17308ad8e..6d92b7ef0a550fc2f10b1fa5c54c772ee81d6b15 100644 (file)
@@ -242,16 +242,28 @@ static size_t get_next_entry(struct logger_log *log, size_t off, size_t len)
 }
 
 /*
- * clock_interval - is a < c < b in mod-space? Put another way, does the line
- * from a to b cross c?
+ * is_between - is a < c < b, accounting for wrapping of a, b, and c
+ *    positions in the buffer
+ *
+ * That is, if a<b, check for c between a and b
+ * and if a>b, check for c outside (not between) a and b
+ *
+ * |------- a xxxxxxxx b --------|
+ *               c^
+ *
+ * |xxxxx b --------- a xxxxxxxxx|
+ *    c^
+ *  or                    c^
  */
-static inline int clock_interval(size_t a, size_t b, size_t c)
+static inline int is_between(size_t a, size_t b, size_t c)
 {
-       if (b < a) {
-               if (a < c || b >= c)
+       if (a < b) {
+               /* is c between a and b? */
+               if (a < c && c <= b)
                        return 1;
        } else {
-               if (a < c && b >= c)
+               /* is c outside of b through a? */
+               if (c <= b || a < c)
                        return 1;
        }
 
@@ -272,11 +284,11 @@ static void fix_up_readers(struct logger_log *log, size_t len)
        size_t new = logger_offset(log, old + len);
        struct logger_reader *reader;
 
-       if (clock_interval(old, new, log->head))
+       if (is_between(old, new, log->head))
                log->head = get_next_entry(log, log->head, len);
 
        list_for_each_entry(reader, &log->readers, list)
-               if (clock_interval(old, new, reader->r_off))
+               if (is_between(old, new, reader->r_off))
                        reader->r_off = get_next_entry(log, reader->r_off, len);
 }