Re: [PATCH] filelock: move file locking definitions to separate header file

[Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>]

On 11/22/22 8:20 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-11-22 at 09:51 +0800, Joseph Qi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 11/21/22 4:59 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>> The file locking definitions have lived in fs.h since the dawn of time,
>>> but they are only used by a small subset of the source files that
>>> include it.
>>>
>>> Move the file locking definitions to a new header file, and add the
>>> appropriate #include directives to the source files that need them. By
>>> doing this we trim down fs.h a bit and limit the amount of rebuilding
>>> that has to be done when we make changes to the file locking APIs.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
>>> ---
>>>  fs/9p/vfs_file.c          |   1 +
>>>  fs/afs/internal.h         |   1 +
>>>  fs/attr.c                 |   1 +
>>>  fs/ceph/locks.c           |   1 +
>>>  fs/cifs/cifsfs.c          |   1 +
>>>  fs/cifs/cifsglob.h        |   1 +
>>>  fs/cifs/cifssmb.c         |   1 +
>>>  fs/cifs/file.c            |   1 +
>>>  fs/cifs/smb2file.c        |   1 +
>>>  fs/dlm/plock.c            |   1 +
>>>  fs/fcntl.c                |   1 +
>>>  fs/file_table.c           |   1 +
>>>  fs/fuse/file.c            |   1 +
>>>  fs/gfs2/file.c            |   1 +
>>>  fs/inode.c                |   1 +
>>>  fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c        |   1 +
>>>  fs/ksmbd/vfs.c            |   1 +
>>>  fs/ksmbd/vfs_cache.c      |   1 +
>>>  fs/lockd/clntproc.c       |   1 +
>>>  fs/lockd/netns.h          |   1 +
>>>  fs/locks.c                |   1 +
>>>  fs/namei.c                |   1 +
>>>  fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h          |   1 +
>>>  fs/nfs_common/grace.c     |   1 +
>>>  fs/nfsd/netns.h           |   1 +
>>>  fs/ocfs2/locks.c          |   1 +
>>>  fs/ocfs2/stack_user.c     |   1 +
>>
>> Seems it misses the related changes in:
>> fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c
>>
> 
> I was able to build ocfs2.ko just fine without any changes to
> stackglue.c. What problem do you see here?
> 
Okay, that's because there is prototype declaration in
fs/ocfs2/stackglue.h, and it seems has no real effect in current
version.

So it looks good to me. For ocfs2 part,
Acked-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>