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=-0.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no 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 B206CC2BA2B for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 03:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9153521D94 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 03:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="uiJbu0G1" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729476AbgDQDSB (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Apr 2020 23:18:01 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:44012 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725859AbgDQDSB (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Apr 2020 23:18:01 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:e::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 11CBBC061A0C; Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:18:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=xmaDAhB15m0ca2yw6/7wplovyJ4mJvftQ1TLrqWm/Bs=; b=uiJbu0G1PjxFYlCSgI8qpa82CM Jf+ghD0cfM+a0KMTUbFMACA5EI30uXjNpMD2zEISEXPmSYXqhyQKEEbwzH9AqUF93nG2bU1CYOzdf uE/0aMhq/Wos8A3WC8t9YU+3Op0i5gKNNEQAk31rtCtemFtzZIR/azxEBpo2EXcKBSQkP6HtuGthY tiQhNZ0SPuOroFAl1dURRnnCTLGW193jGaDnIbzveztLpLC2zHPVjSUNOiJwoV8l6f4CTeySJ3FAl Y1OhirdABmEj06Gq4QJ1bf5rERxHsavdWdgGHxieEQ0RbgyAutTgpaTeiGSmXgCGDBfJeUaOxUD/y hv+0N98g==; Received: from willy by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1jPHVg-0002Ji-ML; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 03:17:44 +0000 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:17:44 -0700 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Al Viro , Felix Kuehling , Alex Deucher , Zhenyu Wang , Zhi Wang , Felipe Balbi , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, intel-gvt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: improve use_mm / unuse_mm v2 Message-ID: <20200417031744.GI5820@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20200416053158.586887-1-hch@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200416053158.586887-1-hch@lst.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:31:55AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > this series improves the use_mm / unuse_mm interface by better > documenting the assumptions, and my taking the set_fs manipulations > spread over the callers into the core API. I appreciate all the work you're doing here. Do you have plans to introduce a better-named API than set_fs() / get_fs()? Also, having set_fs() return the previous value of 'fs' would simplify a lot of the callers.