linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] vfs patches from Miklos

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Message-ID: <20200602000945.GI23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 2 Jun 2020 01:09:45 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs patches from Miklos

On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 04:46:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 11:40 AM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >         Assorted patches from Miklos; an interesting part here is /proc/mounts
> > stuff...
> 
> You know, this could really have done with more of a real description, Al...

Umm...  Assorted VFS work:
	* faster /proc/*/mount* iterator - insert a cursor into the list
instead of rescan in event of any change
	* several mount options parser cleanups
	* statx patches, including the ability to report mnt_id on statx(2)
	* introduction of faccessat2(2)
	* utimensat(2) with AT_EMPTY_PATH
	* allow creating whiteouts (via mknod(2)) for non-root
	* an aio bugfix
That stuff is really all over the place - there are several groups of related
patches, but the above is about as far as it can be compacted...