linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: Move swap_[de]activate to file

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Message-ID: <4fc3c3cf-fa23-db8c-f236-026716f77913@suse.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:00:49 +0200
From:   Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, ira.weiny@...el.com
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: Move swap_[de]activate to file_operations



On 12.11.19 г. 2:43 ч., Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:34:52 -0800 ira.weiny@...el.com wrote:
> 
>> From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
>>
>> swap_activate() and swap_deactivate() have nothing to do with
>> address spaces.  We want to eventually make the address space operations
>> dynamic to switch inode flags on the fly.
> 
> What does this mean?
> 
>>  So to simplify this code as
>> well as properly track these operations we move these functions to the
>> file_operations vector.
>>
>> This has been tested with XFS but not NFS, f2fs, or btrfs.
>>
>> Also note f2fs and xfs have simple moves of their functions to
>> facilitate compilation.  No functional changes are contained within
>> those functions.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
>> +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
>> @@ -11002,6 +11002,8 @@ static const struct file_operations btrfs_dir_file_operations = {
>>  #endif
>>  	.release        = btrfs_release_file,
>>  	.fsync		= btrfs_sync_file,
>> +	.swap_activate	= btrfs_swap_activate,
>> +	.swap_deactivate = btrfs_swap_deactivate,
>>  };
> 
> Shouldn't this be btrfs_file_operations?

INdeed, having swap activate on a directory doesn't make much sense.

> 
>