Amir Goldstein writes:
- bpffs
- configfs
- debugfs
- efivarfs
- hugetlbfs
- ramfs
- tmpfs
I'm confused about this list.
I suggested to convert tmpfs and hugetlbfs because they use a private
inode cache pool, therefore, you can know for sure that a recycled i_ino
was allocated by get_next_ino().
Oh, right. I mistakenly thought alloc_inode was somehow sb-specific and missed
that these don't have any super_operations->alloc_inode :-)
I'll reduce it just to those with this explicitly set.
I'd go even further to say that introducing a generic helper for this sort
of thing is asking for trouble. It is best to keep the recycle logic well within
the bounds of the specific filesystem driver, which is the owner of the
private inode cache and the responsible for allocating ino numbers in
this pool.
Thanks, considering that alloc_inode isn't sb-dependent like I thought, that
definitely sounds reasonable. I'll do that and send v3 then.
Thanks,
Chris
