From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E48AC433E5 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:21:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C2C206D7 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:21:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726663AbgGZQVW (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:21:22 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:59336 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726044AbgGZQVW (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:21:22 -0400 Received: from ZenIV.linux.org.uk (zeniv.linux.org.uk [IPv6:2002:c35c:fd02::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14D4BC0619D2; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 09:21:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from viro by ZenIV.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1jzjOk-0035cA-0j; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:21:14 +0000 Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:21:13 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel , Linux API Subject: Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v3 Message-ID: <20200726162113.GR2786714@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20200726071356.287160-1-hch@lst.de> <20200726155204.GA24103@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200726155204.GA24103@lst.de> Sender: linux-api-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 05:52:04PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 08:49:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 12:14 AM Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > > Hi Al and Linus, > > > > > > currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the > > > devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boot. > > > This is one of the few last remaining places we need to deal with to kill > > > off set_fs entirely, so this series adds new helpers that take kernel > > > pointers. These helpers are in init/ and marked __init and thus will > > > be discarded after bootup. A few also need to be duplicated in devtmpfs, > > > though unfortunately. > > > > I see nothing objectionable here. > > > > The only bikeshed comment I have is that I think the "for_init.c" name > > is ugly and pointless - I think you could just call it "fs/init.c" and > > it's both simpler and more straightforward. It _is_ init code, it's > > not "for" init. > > That was Al's suggestion. I personally don't care, so if between the > two of you, you can come up with a preferred choice I'll switch to it. I can live with either variant; the only problem with fs/init.c is that such name would imply the init code _of_ VFS, rather than VFS helpers for init. Anyway, the series looks generally sane; if no other objections are raised, I'm adding it to vfs.git#for-next