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* [PATCH] fs/pipe: stop duplicating union pipe_index declaration
@ 2025-10-23  8:21 Rasmus Villemoes
  2025-10-23 16:44 ` Nathan Chancellor
  2025-10-29 13:41 ` Christian Brauner
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 19+ messages in thread
From: Rasmus Villemoes @ 2025-10-23  8:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds
  Cc: Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel,
	linux-kbuild, Nathan Chancellor, David Sterba, Rasmus Villemoes

Now that we build with -fms-extensions, union pipe_index can be
included as an anonymous member in struct pipe_inode_info, avoiding
the duplication.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
---
Do we want to do this as well? At the very least it would give some
more test coverage if this could be in -next for most of a cycle.

Context for new people:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjeZwww6Zswn6F_iZTpUihTSNKYppLqj36iQDDhfntuEw@mail.gmail.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/20251020142228.1819871-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk/

 include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h | 15 +--------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
index 9d42d473d201..80539972e569 100644
--- a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
+++ b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
@@ -44,12 +44,6 @@ typedef unsigned int pipe_index_t;
 typedef unsigned short pipe_index_t;
 #endif
 
-/*
- * We have to declare this outside 'struct pipe_inode_info',
- * but then we can't use 'union pipe_index' for an anonymous
- * union, so we end up having to duplicate this declaration
- * below. Annoying.
- */
 union pipe_index {
 	unsigned long head_tail;
 	struct {
@@ -87,14 +81,7 @@ struct pipe_inode_info {
 	struct mutex mutex;
 	wait_queue_head_t rd_wait, wr_wait;
 
-	/* This has to match the 'union pipe_index' above */
-	union {
-		unsigned long head_tail;
-		struct {
-			pipe_index_t head;
-			pipe_index_t tail;
-		};
-	};
+	union pipe_index;
 
 	unsigned int max_usage;
 	unsigned int ring_size;

base-commit: 778740ee2d00e5c04d0c8ffd9c3beea89b1ec554
-- 
2.51.0


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2025-10-23 16:44 ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-10-23 16:48   ` Linus Torvalds
2025-10-29 13:42     ` Christian Brauner
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2025-10-29 17:38   ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-10-29 22:25     ` Christian Brauner
2025-10-29 22:53       ` Linus Torvalds
2025-10-29 23:13         ` Christian Brauner
2025-10-29 23:30           ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-10-30 13:23             ` fms extension (Was: [PATCH] fs/pipe: stop duplicating union pipe_index declaration) Christian Brauner
2025-10-30 13:38               ` Ard Biesheuvel
2025-10-30 17:29                 ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-10-30 20:16                   ` Christian Brauner
2025-10-31  1:34                     ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-11-01 13:10                       ` Christian Brauner
2025-11-01 16:38                         ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-11-06 22:09                           ` Christian Brauner
2025-11-06 23:20                             ` Nathan Chancellor

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