From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757875Ab2IGV1F (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2012 17:27:05 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:12510 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751101Ab2IGV1C (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2012 17:27:02 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,387,1344236400"; d="scan'208";a="199137568" From: Andi Kleen To: Jeff Layton Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, eparis@redhat.com, linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/10] vfs: getname/putname overhaul References: <1347025085-20285-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:26:56 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1347025085-20285-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> (Jeff Layton's message of "Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:37:55 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Layton writes: > This patchset is a first pass at overhauling the getname/putname > interface to use a struct. The idea here is to add a new getname_info > struct that allow us to pass around some auxillary info along with > the string that getname() returns. Couldn't you just use some of the free pointers in struct page? (lru etc.) -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only