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From: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
To: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>,
	Andrew Morton <[email protected]>,
	Al Viro <[email protected]>,
	Felix Kuehling <[email protected]>,
	Alex Deucher <[email protected]>,
	Zhenyu Wang <[email protected]>,
	Zhi Wang <[email protected]>, Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>,
	Jason Wang <[email protected]>, Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected]
Subject: Re: improve use_mm / unuse_mm v2
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:17:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:31:55AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> this series improves the use_mm / unuse_mm interface by better
> documenting the assumptions, and my taking the set_fs manipulations
> spread over the callers into the core API.

I appreciate all the work you're doing here.

Do you have plans to introduce a better-named API than set_fs() / get_fs()?

Also, having set_fs() return the previous value of 'fs' would simplify
a lot of the callers.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-17  3:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-16  5:31 improve use_mm / unuse_mm v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-16  5:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] kernel: move use_mm/unuse_mm to kthread.c Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-16  5:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-16  6:43   ` Greg KH
2020-04-16  5:31 ` [PATCH 3/3] kernel: set USER_DS in kthread_use_mm Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-16  6:43   ` Greg KH
2020-04-17  3:17 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-04-17  6:31   ` improve use_mm / unuse_mm v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-17 14:25 ` Jens Axboe

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