Re: [PATCH v1 00/10] vfs: getname/putname overhaul

Andi Kleen
2012-09-07T21:26:56Z

Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> 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

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