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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:17:11 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>, "Darrick J. Wong"
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Subject: Re: put the xfs xfile abstraction on a diet v4
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 07:27:08 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> 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 mm/ changes look OK to me.  Some are quite welcome!

Please proceed with the above merge plan.