Re: [PATCH] fuse, virtiofs: Do not alloc/install fuse device in fuse_fill_super_common()

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:04 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As of now fuse_fill_super_common() allocates and installs one fuse device.
> Filesystems like virtiofs can have more than one filesystem queues and
> can have one fuse device per queue. Given, fuse_fill_super_common() only
> handles one device, virtiofs allocates and installes fuse devices for
> all queues except one.
>
> This makes logic little twisted and hard to understand. It probably
> is better to not do any device allocation/installation in
> fuse_fill_super_common() and let caller take care of it instead.

I don't have the details about the fuse super block setup in my head,
but leaving the fuse_dev_alloc_install() call inside
fuse_fill_super_common() and adding new
fuse_dev_alloc()/fuse_dev_install() calls looks highly suspicious.

Thanks,
Miklos



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