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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Andreas Grünbacher" <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>,
	Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
	sandeen@redhat.com, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10 V2] New ->fiemap infrastructure and ->bmap removal
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 18:58:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190114175857.GA8634@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHpGcMK5wyLYRxVC9rtVgZ9SrP7XzSVyb78er4U3QD-RaMM1tQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 06:56:16PM +0100, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> Yes, locking. The fiemap_fill_cb callback hack still makes the fiemap
> interface much uglier though. So couldn't the existing iop be used to
> fill a kernel buffer in a way similar to what functions like
> kernel_readv do? That would at least avoid wrecking an existing
> interface.

There is no file system visible change at all, the callback happens
all behind the back.  We could do a less extensible union based version,
but I see absolutely no upside in that.

set_fs as in kernel_readv needs to go away, so no new users should be
added.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-01-14 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-05  9:17 [PATCH 00/10 V2] New ->fiemap infrastructure and ->bmap removal Carlos Maiolino
2018-12-05  9:17 ` [PATCH 01/10] fs: Enable bmap() function to properly return errors Carlos Maiolino
2018-12-05  9:17 ` [PATCH 02/10] cachefiles: drop direct usage of ->bmap method Carlos Maiolino
2018-12-05  9:17 ` [PATCH 03/10] ecryptfs: drop direct calls to ->bmap Carlos Maiolino
2018-12-05  9:17 ` [PATCH 04/10 V2] fibmap: Use bmap instead of ->bmap method in ioctl_fibmap Carlos Maiolino
2019-01-14 16:49   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-04 11:34     ` Carlos Maiolino
2018-12-05  9:17 ` [PATCH 05/10] fs: Move start and length fiemap fields into fiemap_extent_info Carlos Maiolino
2019-01-14 16:50   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-05  9:17 ` [PATCH 06/10] iomap: Remove length and start fields from iomap_fiemap Carlos Maiolino
2019-01-14 16:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-05  9:17 ` [PATCH 07/10] fs: Use a void pointer to store fiemap_extent Carlos Maiolino
2019-01-14 16:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-05  9:17 ` [PATCH 08/10 V2] fiemap: Use a callback to fill fiemap extents Carlos Maiolino
2019-01-14 16:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-05  9:17 ` [PATCH 09/10 V2] Use FIEMAP for FIBMAP calls Carlos Maiolino
2018-12-05 17:36   ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-07  9:09     ` Carlos Maiolino
2018-12-07 20:14       ` Andreas Dilger
2019-02-04 15:11     ` Carlos Maiolino
2019-02-04 18:27       ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-02-06 13:37         ` Carlos Maiolino
2019-02-06 20:44           ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-02-06 21:13             ` Andreas Dilger
2019-02-07  9:52               ` Carlos Maiolino
2019-02-08  8:43                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-11 12:57                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-11 16:21                     ` Carlos Maiolino
2019-02-11 16:48                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-07 11:59             ` Carlos Maiolino
2019-02-07 17:02               ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-02-07 21:25                 ` Andreas Dilger
2019-02-08  8:46                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-08 10:36                     ` Carlos Maiolino
2019-02-08 21:03                       ` Andreas Dilger
2019-02-08  9:08                   ` Carlos Maiolino
2019-02-08  9:03                 ` Carlos Maiolino
2019-02-07 12:36             ` Carlos Maiolino
2019-02-07 18:16               ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-02-08  8:58                 ` Carlos Maiolino
2019-02-06 21:04           ` Andreas Dilger
2019-01-14 16:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-05  9:56     ` Carlos Maiolino
2019-02-05 18:25       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-06  9:50         ` Carlos Maiolino
2018-12-05  9:17 ` [PATCH 10/10] xfs: Get rid of ->bmap Carlos Maiolino
2018-12-05 17:37   ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-06 13:06     ` Carlos Maiolino
2018-12-06 18:56 ` [PATCH 00/10 V2] New ->fiemap infrastructure and ->bmap removal Andreas Grünbacher
2018-12-07  9:34   ` Carlos Maiolino
2019-01-14 16:50     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-14 17:56       ` Andreas Grünbacher
2019-01-14 17:58         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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