Re: [PATCH v9 1/5] iomap: add private pointer to struct iomap

[Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>]

Hi Christoph,

On 15 June 2018 at 14:19, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> wrote:
> Add a private pointer to struct iomap to allow filesystems to pass data
> from iomap_begin to iomap_end.  Will be used by gfs2 for passing on the
> on-disk inode buffer head.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/iomap.h | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/iomap.h b/include/linux/iomap.h
> index 43cc9208599f..9962dcb836b9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iomap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iomap.h
> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ struct iomap {
>                 struct dax_device   *dax_dev;
>                 void                *inline_data;
>         };
> +       void                    *private; /* filesystem private */
>
>         /*
>          * Called when finished processing a page in the mapping returned in
> --
> 2.17.1

any objections? If not, could you please add this to the shared branch?

Thanks,
Andreas