Re: make alloc_anon_inode more useful

[Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>]

Hi,

Sorry for digging...

This patch series seems useful for fs developers.  I'm not sure its
current status and why it doesn't get merged.


On 3/9/21 11:53 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this series first renames the existing alloc_anon_inode to
> alloc_anon_inode_sb to clearly mark it as requiring a superblock.
> 
> It then adds a new alloc_anon_inode that works on the anon_inode
> file system super block, thus removing tons of boilerplate code.
> 
> The few remainig callers of alloc_anon_inode_sb all use alloc_file_pseudo
> later, but might also be ripe for some cleanup.
> 
> Diffstat:
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c |   27 +-------------
>  drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c            |    2 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c            |   64 +----------------------------------
>  drivers/misc/cxl/api.c               |    2 -
>  drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c           |   24 +------------
>  drivers/scsi/cxlflash/ocxl_hw.c      |    2 -
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c      |   30 +---------------
>  fs/aio.c                             |    2 -
>  fs/anon_inodes.c                     |   15 +++++++-
>  fs/libfs.c                           |    2 -
>  include/linux/anon_inodes.h          |    1 
>  include/linux/fs.h                   |    2 -
>  kernel/resource.c                    |   30 ++--------------
>  mm/z3fold.c                          |   38 +-------------------
>  mm/zsmalloc.c                        |   48 +-------------------------
>  15 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 250 deletions(-)
> 

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Thanks,
Jingbo