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 7D20EC43381 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:43:31 +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 D575764F87 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:43:30 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org D575764F87 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 4Dx2Xd2PTFz3dsh for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:43:29 +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 4Dx2WK6xG2z3dZv for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:42:21 +1100 (AEDT) Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id E7A7968B05; Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:42:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:42:17 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] powerpc/pseries: remove the ppc-cmm file system Message-ID: <20210311084217.GB7263@lst.de> References: <20210309155348.974875-1-hch@lst.de> <20210309155348.974875-4-hch@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: Jason Gunthorpe , "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 , 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 Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 04:29:51PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 04:53:42PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Just use the generic anon_inode file system. > > Umm... The only problem I see here is the lifetime rules for > that module, and that's not something introduced in this patchset. > Said that, looks like the logics around that place is duplicated in > cmm.c, vmw_balloon.c and virtion_balloon.c and I wonder if it would > be better off with a helper in mm/balloon.c to be used for that setup... Independ of all other discussions untangling that mess does seem very useful.