linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] fs: add frozen sb state helpers

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Message-ID: <20230608150522.GD72224@frogsfrogsfrogs>
Date:   Thu, 8 Jun 2023 08:05:22 -0700
From:   "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, sandeen@...deen.net,
        song@...nel.org, rafael@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, jack@...e.cz, jikos@...nel.org,
        bvanassche@....org, ebiederm@...ssion.com, mchehab@...nel.org,
        keescook@...omium.org, p.raghav@...sung.com, da.gomez@...sung.com,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...force.de,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] fs: add frozen sb state helpers

On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 10:05:46PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 06:17:13PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > Provide helpers so that we can check a superblock frozen state.
> > This will make subsequent changes easier to read. This makes
> > no functional changes.
> 
> I'll look at the further changes, but having frozen/unfrozen helpers
> that sound binary while we have 4 shades of gray seems rather confusing
> to me.

That was my first reaction too.

Then it occurred to me that *some* people might still be clued into that
subtlety if they happened to ask themselves why there are predicates for
_is_frozen and _is_unfrozen.

But in the end I think I decided that an enum isn't subtle like that at
all and clearly forgot to reply with that.

--D