Re: (subset) [PATCH v2 00/54] fs: rework inode reference counting

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:39:00 -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/cover.1755806649.git.josef@toxicpanda.com/
> 
> v1->v2:
> - Fixed all the things that Christian pointed out.
> - Re-ordered some of the patches to the front in case Christian wants to take
>   those first.
> - Added a new patch for reading the current i_count and propagated that
>   everywhere.
> - Fixed the cifs build breakage.
> - Removed I_REFERENCED since it's no longer needed.
> - Remove I_LRU_ISOLATING since it's no longer needed.
> - Reworked the drop_nlink/clear_nlink part to simply remove the inode from the
>   LRU in the unlink path, and made this its own patch to make the behavior
>   change clear.
> - NOTE: I'm re-running fstests on this now, there was a slight issue with
>   removing the drop_nlink/clear_nlink patch and so I had to add the unlink/rmdir
>   patch to resolve it. I assume everything will be fine but just an FYI.
> - NOTE #2: I reordered stuff, and I did a rebase and rebuild at every step, but
>   I noticed this morning I still missed an odd rebase artifact, so by all means
>   validate I didn't make any silly mistakes on the in-between patches.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs-6.18.inode.refcount.preliminaries branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-6.18.inode.refcount.preliminaries branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs-6.18.inode.refcount.preliminaries

[01/54] fs: make the i_state flags an enum
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/02ec4868cf6f
[03/54] fs: rework iput logic
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/b92e5104e8a9