Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] xattr: extract simple_xattr code from tmpfs

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On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, aris@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Extract in-memory xattr APIs from tmpfs. Will be used by cgroup.
> 
> $ size vmlinux.o
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 4658782  880729 5195032 10734543         a3cbcf vmlinux.o
> $ size vmlinux.o
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 4658957  880729 5195032 10734718         a3cc7e vmlinux.o
> 
> v7:
> - checkpatch warnings fixed
> - Implement the changes requested by Hugh Dickins:
> 	- make simple_xattrs_init and simple_xattrs_free inline
> 	- get rid of locking and list reinitialization in simple_xattrs_free,
> 	  they're not needed

Thanks for doing those.

I'm also happy to see that you're now using simple_xattr_alloc() in
__simple_xattr_set() (but no need to respin to comment on that here).

It looks very nice: much better for this code to live in fs/xattr.c
than in mm/shmem.c.

> v6:
> - no changes
> v5:
> - no changes
> v4:
> - move simple_xattrs_free() to fs/xattr.c
> v3:
> - in kmem_xattrs_free(), reinitialize the list
> - use simple_xattr_* prefix
> - introduce simple_xattr_add() to prevent direct list usage
> 
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxxx>
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