linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHES][RFC] icache-related stuff

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Message-ID: <20180801152503.GJ3218@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:   Wed, 1 Aug 2018 17:25:04 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES][RFC] icache-related stuff

On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 11:03:17PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> A bunch of filesystems switched to discard_new_inode() (btrfs, ufs, udf, ext2,
> jfs)
>       new primitive: discard_new_inode()
>       btrfs: switch to discard_new_inode()
>       ufs: switch to discard_new_inode()
>       udf: switch to discard_new_inode()
>       ext2: make sure that partially set up inodes won't be returned by ext2_iget()
>       jfs: switch to discard_new_inode()

Ack for the btrfs part, please take it through the VFS tree as it
logically belongs to the discard_new_inode updates.

> 4) several btrfs cleanups around btrfs_iget() and friends.
>       btrfs: btrfs_iget() never returns an is_bad_inode() inode.
>       btrfs: IS_ERR(p) && PTR_ERR(p) == n is a weird way to spell p == ERR_PTR(n)
>       btrfs: lift make_bad_inode() into btrfs_iget()
>       btrfs: simplify btrfs_iget()

And I'll take the cleanups through my tree as they don't seem to depend
on the other VFS changes, ie. patches 8, 9, 13 and 14.