Re: [PATCH 1/6] seq_file: add seq_read_iter

Al Viro
2020-12-08T20:54:59Z

On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 12:25:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:49 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Said that, it does appear to survive all beating, and it does fix
> > a regression introduced in this cycle, so, provided that amount of
> > comments in there is OK with you...
>
> Ok, considering Greg's note, I've pulled it. It's early in the last
> week, if something comes up we can still fix it.
>
> That said, considering that I think the only use-case was that odd
> /proc splice use, and the really special WSL2 thing, and both of those
> are verified, it does sound safe to pull.
>
> Famous last words...
>
> Al, since you're around, would you mind looking at the two
> DCACHE_DONTCACHE patches too? Honestly, since they seem to be an issue
> only for DAX, and only for DAX policy changes, I don't consider them
> critical for 5.10, but they've been around for a while now.

Umm... I've got
fs: Handle I_DONTCACHE in iput_final() instead of generic_drop_inode()
and
fs: Kill DCACHE_DONTCACHE dentry even if DCACHE_REFERENCED is set
in "to apply" pile; if that's what you are talking about, I don't
think they are anywhere critical enough for 5.10-final, but I might
be missing something...

Al, still buried under piles of email ;-/