From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/10] vfs: getname/putname overhaul Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:26:56 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1347025085-20285-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: 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") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org 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 List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com 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