linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] iomap: new code for 5.13-rc1

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Date:   Fri, 30 Apr 2021 12:02:19 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>, Jia He <justin.he@....com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-xfs <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] iomap: new code for 5.13-rc1

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 11:50 AM Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>
> A printk specific variant could easily be modified to always restart or
> to simply ignore renames and changes to the mount tree.

Exactly. I think a "ignore renames and mount tree changes" version for
printk would be the right thing.

Yeah, you can in theory get inconsistent results, but everything is
RCU-protected, so you'd get the same kind of "its' kind of valid, but
in race situations you might get a mix of two components" that '%pd'
gives for a dentry case.

That would allow people to use '%pD' and get reasonable results,
without having them actually interact with locks (that may or may not
be held by the thread trying to print debug messages).

           Linus