From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A40DC43381 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:06:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA0702081B for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726525AbfBUTGl (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:06:41 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:46534 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725866AbfBUTGk (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:06:40 -0500 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2351272D; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:06:40 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:06:39 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , axboe@kernel.dk Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] docs: Add some struct file refcounting information Message-ID: <20190221120639.2c321ea4@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20190221190230.17985-1-corbet@lwn.net> References: <20190221190230.17985-1-corbet@lwn.net> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:02:28 -0700 Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Al Viro's recent "braindump" on how struct file refcounting works is too > good to lose, so let's capture it in Documentation/. There are two changes > here: > > - Clean up the filesystem book, move stuff around, and generally try to > create some order here. No text changes other than some connecting > text. > > - Bring in Al's text, with a fair amount of language tweaking and later > corrections applied. > > Hopefully this is just the beginning. I meant to add that, should anybody be curious to see the formatted version of this work, it's at: https://static.lwn.net/kerneldoc/filesystems/index.html jon