From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] vfs: move the clone/dedupe/remap helpers to a single file
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 04:18:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201015031819.GN3576660@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <160272187483.913987.4254237066433242737.stgit@magnolia>
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 05:31:14PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> AFAICT, nobody is attempting to land any major changes in any of the vfs
> remap functions during the 5.10 window -- for-next showed conflicts only
> in the Makefile, so it seems like a quiet enough time to do this. There
> are no functional changes here, it's just moving code blocks around.
>
> So, I have a few questions, particularly for Al, Andrew, and Linus:
>
> (1) Do you find this reorganizing acceptable?
No objections, assuming that it's really a move (it's surprisingly easy to
screw that up - BTDT ;-/)
I have not done function-by-function comparison, but assuming it holds...
no problem.
> (2) I was planning to rebase this series next Friday and try to throw it
> in at the end of the merge window; is that ok? (The current patches are
> based on 5.9, and applying them manually to current master and for-next
> didn't show any new conflicts.)
Up to Linus. I don't have anything in vfs.git around that area; the
only remaining stuff touching fs/read_write.c is nowhere near those,
AFAICS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-15 3:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-15 0:31 [PATCH 0/2] vfs: move the clone/dedupe/remap helpers to a single file Darrick J. Wong
2020-10-15 0:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] vfs: move generic_remap_checks out of mm Darrick J. Wong
2020-10-15 11:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-10-15 16:39 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-10-15 0:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] vfs: move the remap range helpers to remap_range.c Darrick J. Wong
2020-10-15 2:48 ` [PATCH 0/2] vfs: move the clone/dedupe/remap helpers to a single file Linus Torvalds
2020-10-15 3:18 ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-10-15 16:46 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-10-15 16:42 ` [PATCH 3/2] vfs: move the generic write and copy checks out of mm Darrick J. Wong
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