On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:43:18AM +0530, Charan Teja Kalla wrote: > > Ok, but watch out, now you have 2 different reference counts for the > > same structure. Keeping them coordinated is almost always an impossible > > task so you need to only rely on one. If you can't use the file api, > > just drop all of the reference counting logic in there and only use the > > kref one. > > I feel that changing the refcount logic now to dma-buf objects involve > changes in > > the core dma-buf framework. NO? Instead, how about passing the user passed > name directly > > in the ->d_fsdata inplace of dmabuf object? Because we just need user passed > name in the > > dmabuffs_dname(). With this we can avoid the need for extra refcount on > dmabuf. Odd formatting :( > Posted patch-V2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/8/158 Please just post links to lore.kernel.org, we have no control over lkml.org at all. I'll go review that patch now... greg k-h
