linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] erofs: kill erofs_{init,exit}_inode

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Date:   Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:17:27 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "Joe Perches" <joe@...ches.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>
CC:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org>, "Chao Yu" <chao@...nel.org>,
        Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>, <weidu.du@...wei.com>,
        Fang Wei <fangwei1@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] erofs: kill erofs_{init,exit}_inode_cache

On 2019/8/30 11:36, Gao Xiang wrote:
> As Christoph said [1] "having this function
> seems entirely pointless", I have to kill those.
> 
> filesystem                              function name
> ext2,f2fs,ext4,isofs,squashfs,cifs,...  init_inodecache
> 
> In addition, add a "rcu_barrier()" when exit_fs();
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190829101545.GC20598@infradead.org/
> Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>

Thanks,