From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/22] xfs: pack inode allocation parameters into a separate structure
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:21:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190117142126.GC16270@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <154630917213.18437.11076220872907040413.stgit@magnolia>
On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 06:19:32PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
>
> Instead of open-coding new inode parameters through xfs_dir_ialloc and
> xfs_Ialloc, put everything into a structure and pass that instead. This
> will make it easier to share code with xfsprogs while maintaining the
> ability for xfsprogs to supply extra new inode parameters.
I find these ad-hoc arg structures rather cumberssome to be honest.
> +/* Initial ids, link count, device number, and mode of a new inode. */
> +struct xfs_ialloc_args {
> + struct xfs_inode *pip; /* parent inode or null */
> +
> + uint32_t uid;
> + uint32_t gid;
> + prid_t prid;
> +
> + xfs_nlink_t nlink;
> + dev_t rdev;
> +
> + umode_t mode;
And except for the parent inode this is a significant subsystet of
stat data. Can't we just pass a struct kstat, and a mask of attributes
from the kstat we want to set instead? That is use a calling convention
similar to ->setattr?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-17 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-01 2:19 [PATCH 00/22] xfs: hoist inode operations to libxfs Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:19 ` [PATCH 01/22] xfs: hoist extent size helpers " Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-17 14:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-17 19:11 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:19 ` [PATCH 02/22] xfs: hoist inode flag conversion functions Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:19 ` [PATCH 03/22] xfs: convert projid get/set functions Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-17 14:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-17 19:16 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:19 ` [PATCH 04/22] xfs: hoist project id " Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:19 ` [PATCH 05/22] xfs: pack inode allocation parameters into a separate structure Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-17 14:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-01-23 4:11 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:19 ` [PATCH 06/22] xfs: refactor kernel-specific parts of xfs_ialloc Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-17 14:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-17 23:28 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-18 7:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-24 2:04 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-17 22:26 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-17 23:02 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:19 ` [PATCH 07/22] xfs: decouple platform-specific inode allocation functions Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-17 14:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-01 2:19 ` [PATCH 08/22] xfs: split inode allocation and initialization Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:19 ` [PATCH 09/22] xfs: hoist inode allocation function Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:20 ` [PATCH 10/22] xfs: push xfs_ialloc_args creation out of xfs_dir_ialloc Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:20 ` [PATCH 11/22] xfs: refactor special inode roll " Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-17 14:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-17 20:04 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:20 ` [PATCH 12/22] xfs: move xfs_dir_ialloc to libxfs Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:20 ` [PATCH 13/22] xfs: hoist xfs_iunlink " Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:20 ` [PATCH 14/22] xfs: hoist xfs_{bump,drop}link " Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:20 ` [PATCH 15/22] xfs: create libxfs helper to link a new inode into a directory Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:20 ` [PATCH 16/22] xfs: create libxfs helper to link an existing " Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:21 ` [PATCH 17/22] xfs: hoist inode free function to libxfs Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:21 ` [PATCH 18/22] xfs: create libxfs helper to remove an existing inode/name from a directory Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:21 ` [PATCH 19/22] xfs: create libxfs helper to exchange two directory entries Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:21 ` [PATCH 20/22] xfs: create libxfs helper to rename " Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:21 ` [PATCH 21/22] xfs: get rid of cross_rename Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-01 2:21 ` [PATCH 22/22] xfs: create library function to reset root inodes Darrick J. Wong
2019-01-17 14:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-17 23:29 ` Darrick J. Wong
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