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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] statsfs API: create, add and remove statsfs sources and values
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:34:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c979c8b-be64-a18c-2223-2964cb96d52a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <229d83bf-1272-587b-233a-d68ad2e11cde@infradead.org>

On 28/04/20 19:47, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> +config STATS_FS
>> +	bool "Statistics Filesystem"
>> +	default y
> Not default y. We don't enable things that are not required.
> Unless you have a convincing argument otherwise.
> 

I think the best solution is to add stubs to include/linux/statsfs.h,
and use "imply STATS_FS" in KVM.  This would still "default y" when
a subsystem that uses the filesystem is in use, but not otherwise.

Paolo


  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-29 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-27 14:18 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Statsfs: a new ram-based file sytem for Linux kernel statistics Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-27 14:18 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] refcount, kref: add dec-and-test wrappers for rw_semaphores Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-27 14:18 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] statsfs API: create, add and remove statsfs sources and values Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-27 15:47   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-27 16:48     ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-29  9:49     ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] statsfs API: create, add and remove statsfs Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-27 21:53   ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] statsfs API: create, add and remove statsfs sources and values Andreas Dilger
2020-04-29 10:55     ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-28 17:47   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-04-29 10:34     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2020-04-27 14:18 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] kunit: tests for statsfs API Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-28 17:50   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-04-27 14:18 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] statsfs fs: virtual fs to show stats to the end-user Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-27 14:18 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] kvm_main: replace debugfs with statsfs Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-28 17:56   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-04-29 10:34     ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-29 10:35       ` Paolo Bonzini

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