linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND][RFC PATCH] blkcg: rewind seq

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Date:   Mon, 16 May 2022 23:27:09 -0700
From:   Khazhy Kumykov <khazhy@...gle.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND][RFC PATCH] blkcg: rewind seq_file if no stats

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 11:12 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 10:40:30AM -0700, Khazhismel Kumykov wrote:
> > Restores the previous behavior of only displaying devices for which we
> > have statistics (and removes the current, broken, behavior of printing
> > devname with no newline if no statistics)
> >
> > In lieu of get_seq_buf + seq_commit, provide a way to "undo" writes if
> > we use seq_printf
>
> I have to say I much prefer the simpler fix from Wolfgang.  But
Wolfgang's fix still results in a change in behavior, and in my
opinion a worse behavior - we don't need to print out the device names
if there are no stats.

> if we want to go down this route it needs to split into a patch
> for the seq_file infrastruture and a separate one for the blk-cgroup
> code.
Of course - I can spin this into a series if we think it's worthwhile

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