Re: [PATCH 0/2] vfs: move the clone/dedupe/remap helpers to a single file

2020-10-15 Thread Darrick J. Wong
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 04:18:19AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 05:31:14PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > > AFAICT, nobody is attempting to land any major changes in any of the vfs > > remap functions during the 5.10 window -- for-next showed conflicts only > > in the Makefil

Re: [PATCH 0/2] vfs: move the clone/dedupe/remap helpers to a single file

2020-10-14 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 05:31:14PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > AFAICT, nobody is attempting to land any major changes in any of the vfs > remap functions during the 5.10 window -- for-next showed conflicts only > in the Makefile, so it seems like a quiet enough time to do this. There > are no

Re: [PATCH 0/2] vfs: move the clone/dedupe/remap helpers to a single file

2020-10-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 5:31 PM Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > So, I have a few questions, particularly for Al, Andrew, and Linus: > > (1) Do you find this reorganizing acceptable? I don't see a problem. > (3) Can I just grab the copyrights from mm/filemap.c? Or fs/read_write.c? > Or something enti

[PATCH 0/2] vfs: move the clone/dedupe/remap helpers to a single file

2020-10-14 Thread Darrick J. Wong
Hi all, I would like to move the generic helper functions that support the file remap range operations (aka clone and dedupe) to a separate file under fs/. For the moment, I have a few goals here: one is to declutter fs/read_write.c and mm/filemap.c. The second goal is to be able to deselect all