Re: [PATCH 00/10] convert the majority of file systems to mmap_prepare

Jeff Layton
2025-06-17T14:22:57Z

On Mon, 2025-06-16 at 21:41 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 08:33:19PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > REVIEWER'S NOTES
> > ================
> >
> > I am basing this on the mm-new branch in Andrew's tree, so let me know if I
> > should rebase anything here. Given the mm bits touched I did think perhaps
> > we should take it through the mm tree, however it may be more sensible to
> > take it through an fs tree - let me know!
> >
> > Apologies for the noise/churn, but there are some prerequisite steps here
> > that inform an ordering - "fs: consistently use file_has_valid_mmap_hooks()
> > helper" being especially critical, and so I put the bulk of the work in the
> > same series.
> >
> > Let me know if there's anything I can do to make life easier here.
>
> Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst?

Also, an entry for ->mmap_prepare in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
would be good.

I went there first to understand what the requirements of mmap_prepare
are, but there is nothing.
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>