Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v4

2020-08-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:56:23AM -0400, Qian Cai wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:33:53PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Hi Al and Linus, > > > > currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the > > devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boo

Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v4

2020-08-03 Thread Qian Cai
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:33:53PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi Al and Linus, > > currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the > devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boot. > This is one of the few last remaining places we need to deal wi

Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v4

2020-07-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 03:14:24AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > Christoph Hellwig (28): > [snip] > initramfs: switch initramfs unpacking to struct file based APIs > initramfs: switch initramfs unpacking to struct file based APIs > [snip] > > It's not a bisect hazard, of course, but if you d

Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v4

2020-07-30 Thread Al Viro
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 08:25:24AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 08:51:17PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:33:53PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Hi Al and Linus, > > > > > > currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and

Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v4

2020-07-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 08:51:17PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:33:53PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Hi Al and Linus, > > > > currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the > > devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boot

Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v4

2020-07-29 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:33:53PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi Al and Linus, > > currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the > devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boot. > This is one of the few last remaining places we need to deal wi

add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v4

2020-07-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Al and Linus, currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boot. This is one of the few last remaining places we need to deal with to kill off set_fs entirely, so this series adds new helpers that take ker

Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v3

2020-07-26 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 06:26:27PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 06:24:26PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Btw, care to take a look at > > > > http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/kernel_readwrite > > > > it has been in linux-next for 2

Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v3

2020-07-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 06:24:26PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Btw, care to take a look at > > http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/kernel_readwrite > > it has been in linux-next for 2 1/2 weeks, and the only interesting > thing found was that btrfs didn't wire u

Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v3

2020-07-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 05:21:13PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 05:52:04PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 08:49:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 12:14 AM Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Al and Linus, > > > >

Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v3

2020-07-26 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 05:52:04PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 08:49:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 12:14 AM Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > > Hi Al and Linus, > > > > > > currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code

Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v3

2020-07-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 08:49:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 12:14 AM Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > Hi Al and Linus, > > > > currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the > > devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during bo

Re: add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v3

2020-07-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 12:14 AM Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Hi Al and Linus, > > currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the > devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boot. > This is one of the few last remaining places we need to deal with to k

add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v3

2020-07-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Al and Linus, currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boot. This is one of the few last remaining places we need to deal with to kill off set_fs entirely, so this series adds new helpers that take ker

add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code v2

2020-07-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Al and Linus, currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boot. This is one of the few last remaining places we need to deal with to kill off set_fs entirely, so this series adds new helpers that take ker

add file system helpers that take kernel pointers for the init code

2020-07-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Al, currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boot. This is one of the few last remaining places we need to deal with to kill off set_fs entirely, so this series adds new helpers that take kernel pointe