Re: [PATCH 1/3] quota: Add a new quotactl command Q_XGETQSTATV

[Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>]

Christoph, Dave, Ben,

What you suggest I should do w.r.t this patch ?

regards,

Chandra

On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 14:15 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> Chrishtoph,
> 
> After we figured that there are ABI/API issues with adding pquota
> information to the end (while using the same command), I posted what you
> are suggesting now
> (http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2013-07/msg00212.html) as I also do not
> like redundant code. Please see Dave's comment at the link above in
> which he wanted me to change the code so that the two commands are
> totally independent. There was no objections to Dave's suggestion, so I
> made the changes as he suggested.
> 
> On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 11:19 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: 
> > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013e at 01:12:47PM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> > > So you don't like the addition of .get_xstatev in quotactl_ops, and
> > > fs_quota_stat would need to match with fs_quota_statv, adding the project quota
> > > to the end of the structure?
> > 
> > That was what I had in mind initially, before the additional
> > complication were pointed out, except that we don't need it to look
> > exactly the same - if we use put_user calls instead of copy_to_user that
> > layout doesn't have to be the same.
> > 
> > However it seems like going down the stat route and having a kquota_info
> > structure might be the better way to fully separate the in-kernel API
> > from the userspace ABI.
> > 
> > > >   Well, the trouble is with gquota vs pquota - previously we report in
> > > > qs_gquota field either group quotas or project quotas depending on what is
> > > > turned on. Generic quota code doesn't know this so xfs get_xstatev() would
> > > > have to recognize whether it is being called from the old Q_XGETSTAT
> > > > quotactl or from the new Q_XGETSTATV quotactl to know where to fill in
> > > > project quotas. And at that point you somewhat loose the elegancy of using
> > > > one interface - we could set qs_version to some special value so that
> > > > .get_xstatev() recognizes this and does the magic but that doesn't seem very
> > > > different from the extra call...
> > > 
> > > IIUC to make this happen without the addition of .get_xstate in quotactl_ops,
> > > .get_xstate could also grow an argument to determine whether it was called as
> > > Q_XGETSTAT vs Q_XGETSTATV.  If called as Q_XGETSTATV it can look at qs_version
> > > to determine how much to copy.  That might be a bit cleaner than the qs_version
> > > magic number, as long as you don't mind changing the .get_xstate interface.
> > 
> > I don't think we'd need that argument - the fs would always fill out
> > both fields, then the implementation of Q_XGETSTAT would:
> > 
> >  (1) fail if both group and project quota information is present
> 
> There was a discussion on this issue and it was decided to provide back
> only gquota information when both quotas are present and Q_XGETSTAT
> command was used (instead of failing, which will break API)
> 
> > (2) export the pquota fields as gqouta if only project quota is present
> > 
> > > Anyway, please give a shout if I need to revert this.  I believe the commit
> > > raced with the commentary.  ;)
> > 
> > As this is in-kernel only I don't think we need to revert anything, but
> > it would be nice to fix it before 3.12 is released.  I didn't exactly
> > race either, your reply to Jan made me look a it a bit more.
> > 
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