From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
overlayfs <linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Howard McLauchlan <hmclauchlan@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 31/35] Revert "vfs: add d_real_inode() helper"
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:38:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180418093845.19ca33f3@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfpegtLdmnxieDx7+FBUoc-fKsTEwA+oHinhAfa4E9SDFfSNw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:42:03 +0200
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> This reverts commit a118084432d642eeccb961c7c8cc61525a941fcb.
> >>
> >> No user of d_real_inode() remains, so it can be removed.
> >>
> >
> > FYI, there is a new user in v4.17-rc1 added by commit
> > f0a2aa5a2a40 tracing/uprobe: Add support for overlayfs
> >
> > Seems like this patch got merged without any CC to overlayfs
> > mailing list nor maintainer?
It appeared to be a small change with lots of reviewers. I didn't think
it was something to notify the overlayfs folks with. But perhaps I was
wrong.
> >
> > Not sure yet if overlayfs-rorw patches would allow reverting this
> > change.
>
> Not trivial, because uprobe is looking at i_mapping to get a list of
> current memory maps. We could set i_mapping at overlay inode
> initialization time, but we definitely can't *change* i_mapping at
> copy up. Which is bound to result in some weird inconsistencies. So
> likely we'll need to keep d_real_inode() for the time being.
I just received this patch:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180418062907.3210386-1-songliubraving@fb.com
Which removes this code. Can you review it and I'll take it.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-18 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-12 15:07 [RFC PATCH 00/35] overlayfs: stack file operations Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:07 ` [RFC PATCH 01/35] vfs: clean up dedup Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 16:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-12 17:24 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:07 ` [RFC PATCH 02/35] vfs: add path_open() Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 16:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-12 15:07 ` [RFC PATCH 03/35] vfs: optionally don't account file in nr_files Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:07 ` [RFC PATCH 04/35] ovl: copy up times Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-13 8:25 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-04-13 14:23 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-04-12 15:07 ` [RFC PATCH 05/35] ovl: copy up inode flags Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:07 ` [RFC PATCH 06/35] Revert "Revert "ovl: get_write_access() in truncate"" Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:07 ` [RFC PATCH 07/35] ovl: copy up file size as well Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-24 18:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-04-12 15:07 ` [RFC PATCH 08/35] ovl: deal with overlay files in ovl_d_real() Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 09/35] ovl: stack file ops Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-26 14:13 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-04-26 14:43 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-26 14:56 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-04-26 15:01 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-26 15:13 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-04-26 15:21 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 10/35] ovl: add helper to return real file Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 11/35] ovl: readd read_iter Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-13 13:35 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 12/35] ovl: readd write_iter Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 13/35] ovl: readd fsync Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-23 13:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-04-23 13:39 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-23 13:53 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-04-23 14:09 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 14/35] ovl: readd mmap Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 15/35] ovl: readd fallocate Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 16/35] ovl: readd lsattr/chattr support Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-13 14:48 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-04-17 19:51 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-04-22 8:35 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-04-22 15:18 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-04-23 10:21 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-23 10:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-23 6:11 ` Ritesh Harjani
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 17/35] ovl: readd fiemap Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 18/35] ovl: readd O_DIRECT support Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 19/35] ovl: readd reflink/copyfile/dedup support Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-17 20:31 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-04-18 8:39 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-05-03 16:04 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-03 19:48 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 20/35] vfs: don't open real Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 21/35] vfs: add f_op->pre_mmap() Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 22/35] ovl: copy-up on MAP_SHARED Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 23/35] vfs: simplify dentry_open() Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 24/35] Revert "ovl: fix relatime for directories" Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-13 14:02 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-04-13 15:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 25/35] Revert "vfs: update ovl inode before relatime check" Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 26/35] Revert "ovl: fix may_write_real() for overlayfs directories" Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 27/35] Revert "ovl: don't allow writing ioctl on lower layer" Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 28/35] Revert "vfs: add flags to d_real()" Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 29/35] Revert "vfs: do get_write_access() on upper layer of overlayfs" Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 30/35] Revert "vfs: make argument of d_real_inode() const" Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 31/35] Revert "vfs: add d_real_inode() helper" Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-18 8:19 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-04-18 11:42 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-18 13:38 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2018-04-18 13:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-18 13:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-19 19:54 ` Vivek Goyal
2018-04-20 9:14 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 32/35] Partially revert "locks: fix file locking on overlayfs" Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 33/35] Revert "fsnotify: support overlayfs" Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 34/35] vfs: simplify d_op->d_real() Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-12 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 35/35] ovl: fix documentation of non-standard behavior Miklos Szeredi
2018-04-13 11:23 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-04-25 14:49 ` [RFC PATCH 00/35] overlayfs: stack file operations J. R. Okajima
2018-04-25 19:44 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-04 15:23 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-05 16:37 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-05-08 14:25 ` Miklos Szeredi
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