From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v4 Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 08:25:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20200730062524.GA17980@lst.de> References: <20200728163416.556521-1-hch@lst.de> <20200729195117.GE951209@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200729195117.GE951209@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 08:51:17PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:33:53PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Hi Al and Linus, > > > > currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the > > devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boot. > > This is one of the few last remaining places we need to deal with to kill > > off set_fs entirely, so this series adds new helpers that take kernel > > pointers. These helpers are in init/ and marked __init and thus will > > be discarded after bootup. A few also need to be duplicated in devtmpfs, > > though unfortunately. > > > > The series sits on top of my previous > > > > "decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code v2" > > Could you fold the fixes in the parent branch to avoid the bisect hazards? > As it is, you have e.g. "initd: pass a non-f_pos offset to kernel_read/kernel_write" > that ought to go into "initrd: switch initrd loading to struct file based APIs"... I'm not a huge fan of rebasing after it has been out for a long time and with pending other patches on top of it. But at your request I've now folded the fixes and force pushed it.