Re: put the xfs xfile abstraction on a diet v4

Hugh Dickins
2024-02-19T22:35:43Z

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> this series refactors and simplifies the code in the xfs xfile
> abstraction, which is a thing layer on a kernel-use shmem file.
>
> To do this is needs a slighly lower level exports from shmem.c,
> which I combined with improving an assert and documentation there.
>
> As per the previous discussion this should probably be merged through
> the xfs tree.
>
> The series is against current mainline.
>
> Changes since v3:
> - improve the shmem_get_folio documentation
> - use VM_NORESERVE
> - split and reorder the file setup patches
> - improve a commit message

Looks good to me (and I was relieved that you resisted
Matthew's temptation to rename shmem_get_folio()).

Thanks,
Hugh