From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE634C433DB for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:32:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [112.213.38.117]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 135DD64F8A for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:32:56 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 135DD64F8A Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=lst.de Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Received: from boromir.ozlabs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DwQLt2jFRz3d3t for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:32:54 +1100 (AEDT) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=none (no SPF record) smtp.mailfrom=lst.de (client-ip=213.95.11.211; helo=verein.lst.de; envelope-from=hch@lst.de; receiver=) Received: from verein.lst.de (verein.lst.de [213.95.11.211]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DwQLX0vgKz2xb2 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:32:36 +1100 (AEDT) Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id C9A8168B05; Wed, 10 Mar 2021 09:32:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 09:32:31 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: make alloc_anon_inode more useful Message-ID: <20210310083231.GB5217@lst.de> References: <20210309155348.974875-1-hch@lst.de> <20210309165452.GL2356281@nvidia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210309165452.GL2356281@nvidia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , "VMware, Inc." , David Hildenbrand , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Minchan Kim , Alex Williamson , Nadav Amit , Al Viro , Daniel Vetter , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Christoph Hellwig , Nitin Gupta Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 12:54:52PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 04:53:39PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > this series first renames the existing alloc_anon_inode to > > alloc_anon_inode_sb to clearly mark it as requiring a superblock. > > > > It then adds a new alloc_anon_inode that works on the anon_inode > > file system super block, thus removing tons of boilerplate code. > > > > The few remainig callers of alloc_anon_inode_sb all use alloc_file_pseudo > > later, but might also be ripe for some cleanup. > > I like it > > For a submission plan can we have this on a git branch please? I will > need a copy for RDMA and Alex will need one for vfio.. anon_inode.c stuff seems to mostly go through Al's tree, but also various others. So best would be if Al has a branch, but I could also set one up.