On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 12:08:11PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > this series against the VFS vfs.super branch finishes off the work to remove > get_super and move (almost) all upcalls to use the holder ops. > > The first part is the missing btrfs bits so that all file systems use the > super_block as holder. > > The second part is various block driver cleanups so that we use proper > interfaces instead of raw calls to __invalidate_device and fsync_bdev. > > The last part than replaces __invalidate_device and fsync_bdev with upcalls > to the file system through the holder ops, and finally removes get_super. > > It leaves user_get_super and get_active_super around. The former is not > used for upcalls in the traditional sense, but for legacy UAPI that for > some weird reason take a dev_t argument (ustat) or a block device path > (quotactl). get_active_super is only used for calling into the file system > on freeze and should get a similar treatment, but given that Darrick has > changes to that code queued up already this will be handled in the next > merge window. > > A git tree is available here: > > git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git remove-get_super > > Gitweb: > > http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/remove-get_super > I rebased this onto misc-next and put in a PR to get it running through the GH CI, you can follow it here https://github.com/btrfs/linux/actions/runs/5833422266 In the meantime I'll start reviewing the patches. Thanks, Josef
