On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 05:35:16PM +0900, Gioh Kim wrote: > From: Gioh Kim <guru...@hanmail.net> > > The anon_inodes has already complete interfaces to create manage > many anonymous inodes but don't have interface to get > new inode. Other sub-modules can create anonymous inode > without creating and mounting it's own pseudo filesystem. > > Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gioh....@lge.com> > Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aqu...@redhat.com>
This is my first run through the series so I'm going to miss details but this patch confuses me a little. You create an inode to associate with the balloon dev_info so that page->mapping can be assigned. It's only the mapping you care about for the aops so why are multiple inodes required? A driver should be able to share and reference count a single inode. The motivation to do it that way would be to reduce memory consumption and this series is motivated by embedded platforms. anon_inode_getfd has the following * Creates a new file by hooking it on a single inode. This is useful for files * that do not need to have a full-fledged inode in order to operate correctly. * All the files created with anon_inode_getfd() will share a single inode, * hence saving memory and avoiding code duplication for the file/inode/dentry * setup. Returns new descriptor or an error code. If all we care about the inode is the aops then it would follow that anon_inode_getfd() is ideal. The tradeoff is reference counting overhead. The changelog needs to explain why anon_inode_getfd() cannot be used. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
