linux-kernel - Re: make alloc_anon

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Date:   Tue, 9 Mar 2021 12:54:52 -0400
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
        "VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@...are.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: make alloc_anon_inode more useful

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 04:53:39PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this series first renames the existing alloc_anon_inode to
> alloc_anon_inode_sb to clearly mark it as requiring a superblock.
> 
> It then adds a new alloc_anon_inode that works on the anon_inode
> file system super block, thus removing tons of boilerplate code.
> 
> The few remainig callers of alloc_anon_inode_sb all use alloc_file_pseudo
> later, but might also be ripe for some cleanup.

I like it

For a submission plan can we have this on a git branch please? I will
need a copy for RDMA and Alex will need one for vfio..

Thanks,
Jason