From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>, Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>,
"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: make alloc_anon_inode more useful
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 09:32:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210310083231.GB5217@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210309165452.GL2356281@nvidia.com>
On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 12:54:52PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 04:53:39PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > this series first renames the existing alloc_anon_inode to
> > alloc_anon_inode_sb to clearly mark it as requiring a superblock.
> >
> > It then adds a new alloc_anon_inode that works on the anon_inode
> > file system super block, thus removing tons of boilerplate code.
> >
> > The few remainig callers of alloc_anon_inode_sb all use alloc_file_pseudo
> > later, but might also be ripe for some cleanup.
>
> I like it
>
> For a submission plan can we have this on a git branch please? I will
> need a copy for RDMA and Alex will need one for vfio..
anon_inode.c stuff seems to mostly go through Al's tree, but also various
others. So best would be if Al has a branch, but I could also set one up.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Subject: Re: make alloc_anon_inode more useful
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 09:32:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210310083231.GB5217@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210309165452.GL2356281@nvidia.com>
On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 12:54:52PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 04:53:39PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > this series first renames the existing alloc_anon_inode to
> > alloc_anon_inode_sb to clearly mark it as requiring a superblock.
> >
> > It then adds a new alloc_anon_inode that works on the anon_inode
> > file system super block, thus removing tons of boilerplate code.
> >
> > The few remainig callers of alloc_anon_inode_sb all use alloc_file_pseudo
> > later, but might also be ripe for some cleanup.
>
> I like it
>
> For a submission plan can we have this on a git branch please? I will
> need a copy for RDMA and Alex will need one for vfio..
anon_inode.c stuff seems to mostly go through Al's tree, but also various
others. So best would be if Al has a branch, but I could also set one up.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Subject: Re: make alloc_anon_inode more useful
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 09:32:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210310083231.GB5217@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210309165452.GL2356281@nvidia.com>
On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 12:54:52PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 04:53:39PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > this series first renames the existing alloc_anon_inode to
> > alloc_anon_inode_sb to clearly mark it as requiring a superblock.
> >
> > It then adds a new alloc_anon_inode that works on the anon_inode
> > file system super block, thus removing tons of boilerplate code.
> >
> > The few remainig callers of alloc_anon_inode_sb all use alloc_file_pseudo
> > later, but might also be ripe for some cleanup.
>
> I like it
>
> For a submission plan can we have this on a git branch please? I will
> need a copy for RDMA and Alex will need one for vfio..
anon_inode.c stuff seems to mostly go through Al's tree, but also various
others. So best would be if Al has a branch, but I could also set one up.
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2021-03-09 15:53 make alloc_anon_inode more useful Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` [PATCH 1/9] fs: rename alloc_anon_inode to alloc_anon_inode_sb Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 16:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 19:33 ` Gao Xiang
2021-03-09 19:33 ` Gao Xiang
2021-03-09 19:33 ` Gao Xiang
2021-03-09 22:47 ` kernel test robot
2021-03-10 6:39 ` Minchan Kim
2021-03-10 6:39 ` Minchan Kim
2021-03-10 6:39 ` Minchan Kim
2021-03-10 6:39 ` Minchan Kim
2021-03-10 8:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-10 8:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-10 8:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-10 9:33 ` Christian Brauner
2021-03-10 9:33 ` Christian Brauner
2021-03-10 9:33 ` Christian Brauner
2021-03-09 15:53 ` [PATCH 2/9] fs: add an argument-less alloc_anon_inode Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 16:22 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:22 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:22 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:22 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 19:34 ` Gao Xiang
2021-03-09 19:34 ` Gao Xiang
2021-03-09 19:34 ` Gao Xiang
2021-03-10 9:35 ` Christian Brauner
2021-03-10 9:35 ` Christian Brauner
2021-03-10 9:35 ` Christian Brauner
2021-03-09 15:53 ` [PATCH 3/9] powerpc/pseries: remove the ppc-cmm file system Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 16:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-09 16:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-09 16:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-10 16:29 ` Al Viro
2021-03-10 16:29 ` Al Viro
2021-03-10 16:29 ` Al Viro
2021-03-10 16:29 ` Al Viro
2021-03-11 8:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-11 8:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-11 8:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` [PATCH 4/9] drm: remove the drm " Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-10 16:32 ` Al Viro
2021-03-10 16:32 ` Al Viro
2021-03-10 16:32 ` Al Viro
2021-03-10 16:32 ` Al Viro
2021-03-11 8:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-11 8:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-11 8:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` [PATCH 5/9] vmw_balloon: remove the balloon-vmware " Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 16:28 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:28 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:28 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:28 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 15:53 ` [PATCH 6/9] virtio_balloon: remove the balloon-kvm " Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 16:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 16:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 15:53 ` [PATCH 7/9] iomem: remove the iomem " Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-14 13:55 ` [iomem] e14497b88f: BUG:KASAN:null-ptr-deref_in_alloc_anon_inode kernel test robot
2021-03-14 13:55 ` kernel test robot
2021-03-14 13:55 ` kernel test robot
2021-03-14 13:55 ` kernel test robot
2021-03-09 15:53 ` [PATCH 8/9] z3fold: remove the z3fold file system Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` [PATCH 9/9] zsmalloc: remove the zsmalloc " Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-09 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-10 6:44 ` Minchan Kim
2021-03-10 6:44 ` Minchan Kim
2021-03-10 6:44 ` Minchan Kim
2021-03-10 6:44 ` Minchan Kim
2021-03-09 16:54 ` make alloc_anon_inode more useful Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-09 16:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-09 16:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-10 8:32 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-03-10 8:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-10 8:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-10 4:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-10 4:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-10 4:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-10 4:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-10 8:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-10 8:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-10 8:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-02-03 9:49 ` Jingbo Xu
2023-02-03 9:49 ` Jingbo Xu
2023-02-03 9:49 ` Jingbo Xu
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