From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
Xiaoli Feng <xifeng@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] statx: move STATX_ATTR_DAX attribute handling to filesystems
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 21:04:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <300456.1606856642@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgOu9vgUfOSsjO3hHHxGDn4BKhitC_8XCfgmGKiiSm_ag@mail.gmail.com>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> And if IS_DAX() is correct, then why shouldn't this just be done in
> generic code? Why move it to every individual filesystem?
One way of looking at it is that the check is then done for every filesystem -
most of which don't support it. Not sure whether that's a big enough problem
to worry about. The same is true of the automount test too, I suppose...
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-01 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-01 16:54 [PATCH 0/2] statx: Fix DAX attribute collision and handling Eric Sandeen
2020-12-01 16:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] uapi: fix statx attribute value overlap for DAX & MOUNT_ROOT Eric Sandeen
2020-12-01 17:32 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-12-01 17:44 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-12-01 18:31 ` Andreas Dilger
2020-12-01 18:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-12-02 2:16 ` Ira Weiny
2020-12-02 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-03 2:45 ` Ira Weiny
2020-12-03 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-01 16:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] statx: move STATX_ATTR_DAX attribute handling to filesystems Eric Sandeen
2020-12-01 17:39 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-12-01 17:53 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-12-01 20:52 ` Dave Chinner
2020-12-01 22:03 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-12-01 22:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-01 22:26 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-12-02 2:29 ` Ira Weiny
2020-12-02 8:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-01 20:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-01 20:50 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-12-01 21:04 ` David Howells [this message]
2020-12-01 22:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-02 0:11 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-12-01 17:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] uapi: fix statx attribute value overlap for DAX & MOUNT_ROOT David Howells
2020-12-01 17:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] statx: move STATX_ATTR_DAX attribute handling to filesystems David Howells
2020-12-01 17:28 ` David Howells
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