From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D43E2185935; Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1739180528; cv=none; b=TZCA2nVIgNclickwBsOSlRdxyEPAg9zRF2WSkEjg4ZOF1U7RrRTRvC/cXa/T7m9rKmZkyVsh27O7yk10DTK1o2DdPu8Zn+ONCmT622KiS6TS0HiPLbUAVlpF7oxoRE9qCivFDeTbJj+j7X9DbknLHOa4AbrBeG+UJt9fjWjNM70= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1739180528; c=relaxed/simple; bh=/rwxf/BzGy+fmNxwMUlA/oFiUzSI1GSGACuPSGqyoFg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=JIOJRFILwHH/O7a+Agd88RT+o/b3yvvCaz+TcJZY+Sk9RGIYxU0NSWdmdq4wpaTe1BXUGrQeB37nKLuJcGy4J1tmVJ2LlThdBppUTq+QdjubAdg5dPaN32rdf79ewe7E/z9gxpEk917Hh+xKzvuo5+Z+fB/65KvrSpAtiPA6MWA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=KYJXSU3W; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="KYJXSU3W" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8ED48C4CED1; Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:42:01 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1739180527; bh=/rwxf/BzGy+fmNxwMUlA/oFiUzSI1GSGACuPSGqyoFg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=KYJXSU3W5Y1qR3ODXR+3tw3P2jtt260lDrNbIznB2Juq6IzB/2jfd0t9Iq6xqioGC Bkodgv2OcaxfY0JOrXr/dORGa9Jw+R3KKjFrqRn8BcEgu0MJxL5jc7lSVYM3lAtI/K 3hv609zSrqNxGX/HcSsG2QbcGea8JSGTEmEpOqe1GI4/tJBiX7CtUFvPPSKAbES5l4 SbN8UL0wiDe3yTUEMOPDLyKtzJ7SwRSaS6Ej9gHpt0TmN1Jdbnx3zo71Q5rUbLHFt3 xZpjVNTm0eJefl7CUE1GShH9OTVHbAueynu80RE/vy+NYTodJHeTI1qoyy5NwDeNwl PpcMB6z3/cP9w== Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:41:58 +0100 From: Christian Brauner To: Al Viro Cc: NeilBrown , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Danilo Krummrich , Kent Overstreet , Trond Myklebust , Anna Schumaker , Namjae Jeon , Steve French , Sergey Senozhatsky , Tom Talpey , Paul Moore , Eric Paris , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, audit@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] VFS: minor improvements to a couple of interfaces Message-ID: <20250210-abrieb-aspekt-80b6455a99de@brauner> References: <20250207034040.3402438-1-neilb@suse.de> <20250210-enten-aufkochen-ffecc8b4d829@brauner> <20250210084246.GB1977892@ZenIV> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20250210084246.GB1977892@ZenIV> On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 08:42:46AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 09:25:26AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:36:46 +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > > > I found these opportunities for simplification as part of my work to > > > enhance filesystem directory operations to not require an exclusive > > > lock on the directory. > > > There are quite a collection of users of these interfaces incluing NFS, > > > smb/server, bcachefs, devtmpfs, and audit. Hence the long Cc line. > > > > > > NeilBrown > > > > > > [...] > > > > I've taken your first cleanup. Thanks for splitting those out of the > > other series. > > > > --- > > > > Applied to the vfs-6.15.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree. > > Patches in the vfs-6.15.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon. > > Might be better to put it into a separate branch, so that further > work in that direction wouldn't be mixed with other stuff... Yep, good call: vfs-6.15.async.dir