From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [90.155.50.34]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7BFD31993B9; Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:51:09 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.50.34 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1749844271; cv=none; b=DEFXxK0+sSokuxSypahY7zpuY1hXtRe4483yTC4E3vxuoIUHkOXPjtfoyvm6rV6mEbDdTnHH1BZHt2LguEsjZtobyVz1JsT9eS+cQDsQMrvQ92X5FC1KlAMEuxdWm9ljvy7wGd5iHnaC9kjlzFN7pI82pdWf1negVHPTegL9ir8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1749844271; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ySUhENbCn6/8LQPsYQ6zFHYKuMVfyA+Sh17OlvPtq+Q=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=P5bYG9jVeX9nnz/HwlQUH1iyVPW9+qKJ0iszRZ85xQ0MUPfEab60AxNhRPMQStB9MoVeTSmHIVPAfjcp/6dQmEKJR7Z5u839yUNGF3q9lmPx/fOAzr7ACxXlGMOYc57VpYHNpHN3svBGGqvtZns/PHvMeyDlNjEgjcvqw6nrrTc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=SVRsiFsy; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.50.34 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="SVRsiFsy" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=jXPVzY9vkuIS0lyvuKdeAbmogAFV4IaKWtXKsWkuT4Q=; b=SVRsiFsya3SZD1fO5Irkdnj79I aJG4/hs4mUuZ8qoS+YZ+3yEBnonuWJKsU9YM6P3o08porihvHoZ8lnCeFq9/VuVuKdVB2XXfPzKEe PLregmJ1fZV/U914jiXBsfMtd6OczTx5Tp7JvuDTAKYinL3EJ8HnbDWOE3uKYJF3kOQ6dfc9A/LJf ltjfT12//9LBaXnsYJUCAPgQYmFbfpUsIXBYv2TIm0iwcD+TKS6qlnVaRGCHBRJ2LoKaHgsSvp8ua NPHrVZ0g+btvRSVvLMcXfxcYd/vNCNcOZddv1L4S9PFAdjS+RR4MRYH3mXRBkO7goVEEBkWReaPew w+kzNNhg==; Received: from willy by casper.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1uQAQc-0000000DK8x-23OI; Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:51:06 +0000 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:51:06 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Ira Weiny , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Remove zero_user() Message-ID: References: <20250612143443.2848197-1-willy@infradead.org> <20250613052432.GA8802@lst.de> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20250613052432.GA8802@lst.de> On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 07:24:32AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 03:34:36PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote: > > The zero_user() API is almost unused these days. Finish the job of > > removing it. > > Both the block layer users really should use bvec based helpers. > I was planning to get to that this merge window. Can we queue up > just the other two removals for and remove zero_user after -rc1 > to reduce conflicts? If I'd known you were doing that, I wouldn't've bothered. However, Andrew's taken the patches now, so I'm inclined to leave them in. No matter which tree it gets merged through, this is a relatively easy conflict to resolve (ie just take your version). I have some more patches which build on the removal of zero_user() so it'd be nice to not hold them up.