linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] Make anon

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Message-ID: <0dd5adcf-51e9-00a8-cc79-e9bd36b4125e@metux.net>
Date:   Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:13:31 +0200
From:   "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@...ux.net>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        jannh@...gle.com, dhowells@...hat.com, oleg@...hat.com,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     serge@...lyn.com, luto@...nel.org, arnd@...db.de,
        ebiederm@...ssion.com, keescook@...omium.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mtk.manpages@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        cyphar@...har.com, joel@...lfernandes.org, dancol@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] Make anon_inodes unconditional

On 19.04.19 14:09, Christian Brauner wrote:

Hi,

> From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> 
> Make the anon_inodes facility unconditional so that it can be used by core
> VFS code and pidfd code.

I'm not convinced this is necessary. Instead the new features should
select ANON_INODES when enabled. And yes: these features should be
configurable.

Why ? Because embedded folks need to trim down the kernel and drop
everything that's not absolutely needed.


--mtx

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Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Free software and Linux embedded engineering
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