netdev - Re: [PATCH 04/39] add struct fd constructors, get rid of __to

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Message-ID: <20240807-bewohnbar-kurzweilig-232c3b61711c@brauner>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 12:09:20 +0200
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: viro@...nel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, amir73il@...il.com, bpf@...r.kernel.org, 
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/39] add struct fd constructors, get rid of __to_fd()

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 01:15:50AM GMT, viro@...nel.org wrote:
> From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> 
> 	Make __fdget() et.al. return struct fd directly.
> New helpers: BORROWED_FD(file) and CLONED_FD(file), for
> borrowed and cloned file references resp.
> 
> 	NOTE: this might need tuning; in particular, inline on
> __fget_light() is there to keep the code generation same as
> before - we probably want to keep it inlined in fdget() et.al.
> (especially so in fdget_pos()), but that needs profiling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>