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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add prototype for __add_to_page_cache_locked()
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 15:52:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201223155254.GA6138@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201223121136.GP874@casper.infradead.org>

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:11:36PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 08:31:26AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Can we please make the eBPF code stop referencing this function instead
> > of papering over this crap?  It has no business poking into page cache
> > internals.
> 
> The reference from the BPF code is simply "you can inject errors here".
> And I think we want to be able to inject errors to test the error paths,
> no?

Something that expects a symbol to be global is just pretty broken.
I think it need to change so that whatever instrumentation is done can
coexist with a static function.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-23 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-22 14:19 [PATCH] mm: add prototype for __add_to_page_cache_locked() Souptick Joarder
2020-12-22 20:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-22 23:53   ` Andrew Morton
2020-12-23  1:19     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-23  8:31     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-23 12:11       ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-23 15:52         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-12-28  0:59           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-23  3:16 Souptick Joarder
2020-12-23  3:18 ` Souptick Joarder

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