From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] Make anon_inodes unconditional Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:13:31 +0200 Message-ID: <0dd5adcf-51e9-00a8-cc79-e9bd36b4125e@metux.net> References: <20190419120904.27502-1-christian@brauner.io> <20190419120904.27502-2-christian@brauner.io> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190419120904.27502-2-christian@brauner.io> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Brauner , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jannh@google.com, dhowells@redhat.com, oleg@redhat.com, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: serge@hallyn.com, luto@kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, ebiederm@xmission.com, keescook@chromium.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, cyphar@cyphar.com, joel@joelfernandes.org, dancol@google.com List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On 19.04.19 14:09, Christian Brauner wrote: Hi, > From: David Howells > > Make the anon_inodes facility unconditional so that it can be used by core > VFS code and pidfd code. I'm not convinced this is necessary. Instead the new features should select ANON_INODES when enabled. And yes: these features should be configurable. Why ? Because embedded folks need to trim down the kernel and drop everything that's not absolutely needed. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering info@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287