From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>,
Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] cdev: Finish the cdev api with queued mode support
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:39:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4g+Pd+A6Aa9uXK1GwMo726niSF9jZ=fQvEuyNocso1zcA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4jvGfZ1W8KLPO22oYVDBiUYius+Nf8kRNP=xmPvjg+deA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:20 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:46 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > The subject doesn't make any sense to me.
> >
> > But thn again queued sound really weird. You just have a managed
> > API with a refcount and synchronization, right?
>
> Correct.
>
> "queue" was in reference to the way q_usage_count behaves, but yes,
> just refcount + synchronization is all this is.
>
> >
> > procfs and debugfs already support these kind of managed ops, kinda sad
> > to duplicate this concept yet another time.
>
> Oh, I didn't realize there were managed ops there, I'll go take a look
> and see if cdev can adopt that scheme.
So in both cases they are leveraging the fact that they are the
filesystems that allocated the inode and will stash the private
reference counting somewhere relative to the container_of the
vfs_inode. I don't immediately see how that scheme can be implied to
special device files that can come from an inode on any filesystem.
I do see how debugfs and procfs could be unified, but I don't think
this percpu_ref for cdev is compatible.
Other ideas?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-21 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-20 19:38 [PATCH 0/3] cdev: Generic shutdown handling Dan Williams
2021-01-20 19:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] cdev: Finish the cdev api with queued mode support Dan Williams
2021-01-20 19:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-20 20:20 ` Dan Williams
2021-01-20 21:39 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2021-01-20 19:50 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2021-01-20 20:38 ` Dan Williams
2021-01-21 8:13 ` Greg KH
2021-01-21 17:50 ` Dan Williams
2021-01-20 19:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] libnvdimm/ida: Switch to non-deprecated ida helpers Dan Williams
2021-01-20 19:39 ` [PATCH 3/3] libnvdimm/ioctl: Switch to cdev_register_queued() Dan Williams
2021-01-21 8:15 ` Greg KH
2021-01-21 17:02 ` Dan Williams
2021-01-30 1:59 ` [PATCH 0/3] cdev: Generic shutdown handling Dan Williams
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