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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v4
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 08:25:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200730062524.GA17980@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200729195117.GE951209@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 08:51:17PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:33:53PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi Al and Linus,
> > 
> > currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the
> > devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boot.
> > This is one of the few last remaining places we need to deal with to kill
> > off set_fs entirely, so this series adds new helpers that take kernel
> > pointers.  These helpers are in init/ and marked __init and thus will
> > be discarded after bootup.  A few also need to be duplicated in devtmpfs,
> > though unfortunately.
> >
> > The series sits on top of my previous
> > 
> >   "decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code v2"
> 
> Could you fold the fixes in the parent branch to avoid the bisect hazards?
> As it is, you have e.g. "initd: pass a non-f_pos offset to kernel_read/kernel_write"
> that ought to go into "initrd: switch initrd loading to struct file based APIs"...

I'm not a huge fan of rebasing after it has been out for a long time and
with pending other patches on top of it.  But at your request I've now
folded the fixes and force pushed it.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-30  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-28 16:33 add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v4 Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:33 ` [PATCH 01/23] fs: refactor do_mount Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:33 ` [PATCH 02/23] fs: refactor ksys_umount Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-06 14:44   ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-08-17 13:44     ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-07-28 16:33 ` [PATCH 03/23] fs: push the getname from do_rmdir into the callers Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:33 ` [PATCH 04/23] devtmpfs: refactor devtmpfsd() Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:59   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-28 16:33 ` [PATCH 05/23] init: initialize ramdisk_execute_command at compile time Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:33 ` [PATCH 06/23] init: mark console_on_rootfs as __init Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 07/23] init: mark create_dev " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 08/23] init: add an init_mount helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 09/23] init: add an init_umount helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 10/23] init: add an init_unlink helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 11/23] init: add an init_rmdir helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 12/23] init: add an init_chdir helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 13/23] init: add an init_chroot helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 14/23] init: add an init_chown helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 15/23] init: add an init_chmod helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 16/23] init: add an init_eaccess helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 17/23] init: add an init_link helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 18/23] init: add an init_symlink helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 19/23] init: add an init_mkdir helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 20/23] init: add an init_mknod helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 21/23] init: add an init_stat helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04 13:53   ` [PATCH] init: fix error check in clean_path() Barret Rhoden
2020-09-04 16:04     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 22/23] init: add an init_utimes helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:34 ` [PATCH 23/23] init: add an init_dup helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-29 19:51 ` add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v4 Al Viro
2020-07-30  6:25   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-07-31  2:14     ` Al Viro
2020-07-31  6:33       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-03 14:56 ` Qian Cai
2020-08-03 15:08   ` Christoph Hellwig

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