linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 3/8] fork: add USER_WORKER flag to not dup/clone files

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Date:   Thu, 2 Feb 2023 16:16:13 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>
Cc:     hch@...radead.org, stefanha@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com,
        mst@...hat.com, sgarzare@...hat.com,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, brauner@...nel.org,
        ebiederm@...ssion.com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 3/8] fork: add USER_WORKER flag to not dup/clone files

On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 3:25 PM Mike Christie
<michael.christie@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> -       retval = copy_files(clone_flags, p);
> +       retval = copy_files(clone_flags, p,
> +                           args->worker_flags & USER_WORKER_NO_FILES);

Just to hit the previous email comment home, adding just another
bitfield case would have made this patch simpler, and this would just
be

       retval = copy_files(clone_flags, p, args->no_files);

which seems more legible too.

             Linus