Hi, Sorry for digging... This patch series seems useful for fs developers. I'm not sure its current status and why it doesn't get merged. On 3/9/21 11:53 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > this series first renames the existing alloc_anon_inode to > alloc_anon_inode_sb to clearly mark it as requiring a superblock. > > It then adds a new alloc_anon_inode that works on the anon_inode > file system super block, thus removing tons of boilerplate code. > > The few remainig callers of alloc_anon_inode_sb all use alloc_file_pseudo > later, but might also be ripe for some cleanup. > > Diffstat: > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c | 27 +------------- > drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 2 - > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c | 64 +---------------------------------- > drivers/misc/cxl/api.c | 2 - > drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 24 +------------ > drivers/scsi/cxlflash/ocxl_hw.c | 2 - > drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 30 +--------------- > fs/aio.c | 2 - > fs/anon_inodes.c | 15 +++++++- > fs/libfs.c | 2 - > include/linux/anon_inodes.h | 1 > include/linux/fs.h | 2 - > kernel/resource.c | 30 ++-------------- > mm/z3fold.c | 38 +------------------- > mm/zsmalloc.c | 48 +------------------------- > 15 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 250 deletions(-) > -- Thanks, Jingbo
