linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] kernfs: add exportfs operations

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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 15:06:36 -0400
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Shaohua Li <shli@...com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, Kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] kernfs: add exportfs operations

Hello,

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 03:53:04PM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:
> The goal isn't to export kernfs to NFS. The intention is to make tracing cgroup
> aware. To do this, tracing will record an id for cgroup and use the id to find
> cgroup name later. The best id is the cgroup directory inode number. Further to
> filter out stale cgroup directory, fhandle is the best to identify a cgroup. So
> this is what this series try to do.

Generally looks good to me.  Had some review points in other replies.
There is a related issue which can be a nice follow-up - replacing
cgrp->id with kernfs's fid.  cgrp->id is allocated on its own idr and
its only use is to accelerate testing for ancestry and we can easily
replace that with the unique file id.

Thanks a lot!

-- 
tejun