On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 09:17:36PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 25 Nov 2023 at 21:08, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 08:59:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > because I for some reason (probably looking > > > at Mateusz' original patch too much) re-implemented file_free() as > > > fput_immediate().. > > > > file_free() was with RCU delay at that time, IIRC. > > Ahh, indeed. So it was the SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU changes that basically Yes, special-casing this into file_free() wasn't looking very appealing.