On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 04:26:09PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 21:18:20 +0000 > Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > OK... debugfs and tracefs definitely convert to that; so do, AFAICS, > > spufs and selinuxfs, and I wouldn't be surprised if it could be > > used in a few more places... securityfs, almost certainly qibfs, > > gadgetfs looks like it could make use of that. Maybe subrpc > > as well, but I'll need to look in details. configfs won't, > > unfortunately... > > Thanks Al for looking into this. > > I'll try to test it in tracefs, and see if anything breaks. But > probably wont get to it till next week. I'll probably throw that into #next.dcache - if nothing else, that cuts down on the size of patch converting d_subdirs/d_child from list to hlist... Need to get some sleep first, though - only 5 hours today, so I want to take another look at that thing tomorrow morning - I don't trust my ability to spot obvious bugs right now... ;-/ Oh, well - that at least might finally push the old "kernel-side rm -rf done right" pile of half-baked patches into more useful state, probably superseding most of them.
