On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 08:51:17PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:33:53PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Hi Al and Linus, > > > > currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the > > devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boot. > > This is one of the few last remaining places we need to deal with to kill > > off set_fs entirely, so this series adds new helpers that take kernel > > pointers. These helpers are in init/ and marked __init and thus will > > be discarded after bootup. A few also need to be duplicated in devtmpfs, > > though unfortunately. > > > > The series sits on top of my previous > > > > "decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code v2" > > Could you fold the fixes in the parent branch to avoid the bisect hazards? > As it is, you have e.g. "initd: pass a non-f_pos offset to kernel_read/kernel_write" > that ought to go into "initrd: switch initrd loading to struct file based APIs"... I'm not a huge fan of rebasing after it has been out for a long time and with pending other patches on top of it. But at your request I've now folded the fixes and force pushed it.